Changes in fedora 42 necessitates a slight change in installer.sh, or an extra step for fedora users

[Jakob-Tvalfager]

Changes in fedora 42 necessitates a slight change in installer.sh, or an extra step for fedora users

This fix is for people who can for example do this:

terminal:~$ virsh -c qemu:///system start RDPWindows
Domain "RDPWindows" started

or this:

terminal:~$  sudo virsh start RDPWindows
Domain "RDPWindows" started

But not this, as they get an error:

terminal:~$  virsh start RDPWindows
error: failed to retrieve domain 'RDPWindows'

The fix, and the why

There has been a change to how Virsh behaves in at least fedora 42; maybe even earlier. It no longer defaults to looking for system wide VMs which breaks the installer.sh script.

One solution is to do one extra step before launching the installer.sh:

terminal:~$ nano ~/.bashrc
terminal:~$ source ~/.bashrc

add
export VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI="qemu:///system"

To the end of the file. It will make Virsh default to looking for the system wide RDP accessible VMs, which winapps rely on.

[Jakob-Tvalfager]

Turns out the script still fails with this change:

terminal:~/winapps$ ./installer.sh
? Would you like to install for the current user or the whole system? System
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Removing any old configurations...
grep: /home/jakob/.local/share/applications/*: Filen eller katalogen finns inte
grep: /usr/local/bin/*: Filen eller katalogen finns inte
Installing...
  Checking for installed apps in RDP machine (this may take a while)... Finished.

The RDP connection failed to connect or run. Please confirm FreeRDP can connect with:
  bin/winapps check

If it cannot connect, this is most likely due to:
  - You need to accept the security cert the first time you connect (with 'check')
  - Not enabling RDP in the Windows VM
  - Not being able to connect to the IP of the VM
  - Incorrect user credentials in winapps.conf
  - Not merging install/RDPApps.reg into the VM

yet the other virsh outputs seem normal?:

terminal:~/winapps$ virsh start RDPWindows
fel: Domänen är redan aktiv

terminal:~/winapps$ virsh net-list
 Namn      Tillstånd   Autostart   Varaktig
---------------------------------------------
 default   aktiv       ja          ja

[j0110]

Added uri_default = "qemu:///system" to ~/.config/libvirt/libvirt.conf solved the problem.

[KernelGhost]

@Jakob-Tvalfager This project is no longer maintained. Please see https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps.