Some feedback from a newbie

Thanks for the software! I am learning.

I was following this guide whonix(.)org/wiki/KVM#Arch_Linux (I am running CachyOS)

Things were going great, but then I ran into some trouble with Whonix Gateway not having a working wired connection → no Internet.

I tested with another VM and soon realized that the problem persisted, having nothing to do with Whonix, but rather my QEMU/KVM with virt-manager setup.

It has taken embarrassingly long to solve this problem. You should consider incorporating some of the following into your wiki. Perhaps here whonix(.)org/wiki/Troubleshooting#Connectivity_Troubleshooting

From what I gather this problem has affected Arch users since the libvirt-1:10.4.0 update.

You need to set
firewall_backend = "iptables" in /etc/libvirt/network.conf

Then

$ sudo systemctl restart libvirtd

I hope this helps. More here reddit(.)com/r/archlinux/comments/1d9dsyy/last_update_broke_virtual_networking/

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