The right way of installing Cockpit for QEMU/Virtual Manager

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I am a 10-day old Bluefin-DX user. So, bear with me. Probably what I am going to say sounds old to you but for me is a significant discovery.

I had been trying to set up a smooth QEMU/KVM/Virtual Manager installation for virtual machines to replace my previous VirtualBox VMs workflow in Ubuntu 22.04. Bluefin-DX comes with a whole set of goodies for development that includes Virtual Manager for QEMU VMs. But so far I was failing at making the Desktop Viewer to work.

Now I know why. I installed the Cockpit Client via flatpak. And that method is wrong because it doesn’t launch any service. It sees the VMs, you can control the VMs but you cannot open a Desktop View at all. You click on the Launch remote viewer button and nothing happens.

Until I found that the whole Cockpit can be installed and set up with a simple ujust cockpit. My mistake was to assume that the Cockpit services were installed by default in Bluefin-DX. Now I can open Cockpit from a browser at http://127.0.0.1:9090/ and get control of the VMs and able to launch a remote view.

ujust, or just, are great to automate these installations.

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4-day user here! You’ve got more than twice as much experience!!!

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Hi f0nzie, I’ve manage to install cockpit using ujust but I’m having issues with setting up the bridge mode, so I can connect to the vms I’ve created. Did you have any joy with this part?