virt-manager

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2017–2026), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with virt-manager, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 8 complaints

Forced to type OS name into search box; no generic x86 option, tedious2026-07-06
GPU passthrough needs manually editing XML files, which is non-intuitive2026-02-10
Harder to understand than VirtualBox, took a long time to get used to2024-07-26
Breaks SPICE connections and bug reports go ignored, sometimes losing VMs2024-02-09
Buggy and lacking features; poor on HiDPI screens, can't configure IPv62024-02-08
Directory and clipboard sharing is convoluted, requiring multiple manuals and videos to figure out2023-07-24
UI is often missing features, so the user switched to the command line2022-04-20
Virtual machine managers don't show thin LVM volumes, forcing a manual virsh workaround2017-06-05