Are you connected to the system or session libvirtd [1]? Likely the system one if using virt-manager as root. If running virt-manager as root, please attach /root/.cache/virt-manager/*.log and /var/log/libvirt/qemu/<vm-name>.log. [1] https://libvirt.org/daemons.html#operating-modes https://wiki.libvirt.org/FAQ.html#what-is-the-difference-between-qemu-system-and-qemu-session-which-one-should-i-use https://blog.wikichoon.com/2016/01/qemusystem-vs-qemusession.html