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  • Ah damn. I was hoping I could simply install this package, and then start my VM from this web interface. Because the GUI App VirtualBox doesn't open. As soon as I click on it, then it crashes immediately. So I'm not able to start any of my VMs for the past 2-3 days. And this isn't the first time that the VirtualBox App frontend has stopped working. A few months back, the same happened and I couldn't start any of my VMs for 2 weeks. Only 2 weeks later when I did a system update, it started working again. So I think I kind of need a second interface or way to start the VMs without the GUI App. Commented Aug 21 at 12:23
  • well, I'm not sure why you're going for more obscure things. If virtualbox crashes, another piece of software built atop of it won't fare better. Commented Aug 21 at 12:25
  • Seriously though, yesterday you were so close with virt-manager, with the only mistake seemingly being trying to use it via flatpak. I know the virt-manager package is just available natively on arch, why didn't you just install that? On debian, fedora, alma and Ubuntu, I have done just that and it was all it took to get working user VMs. I bet Arch has documentation, and it shouldn't be any harder (unless Arch is being special here, which I can't preclude, but it seems still the way of lower resistance). Commented Aug 21 at 12:27
  • (you'll want to uninstall virtualbox first, and probably reboot. If that crashes, I don't want to know what the kernel module did) Commented Aug 21 at 12:32
  • If I uninstall VirtualBox, won't I lose my VMs? I have tried to reinstall VirtualBox a couple of times now, but that didn't work. Commented Aug 21 at 12:35