Firewalld, nftables, and libvirt on Gentoo

After many and many weeks, I finally got libvirt working on this Gentoo machine. Before revealing how I’ve fixed this problem, let’s go through what the issues were. On this Gentoo I run Firewalld with nftables as backend. An alternative to nftables is iptables, but since nftables is newer and is becoming the default backend for more and more distribution including Fedora, I think it’s a good thing to adobt it early....

October 17, 2020 · 4 min · 801 words · kenno