I’m guessing that it is fine.
No vhost-net module automatically loaded when openSUSE host boots, KVM “local server” not automatically connecting when opening virt-manager… WTH!?
“vhost-net” is loaded here. But I didn’t do it manually.
I’m guessing that it loads when used, which is probably the first time that I start a virtual host.
When I start “virt-manager”, it looks as you describe. So I double-click on the “QEMU/KVM” line, and it connects. After it connects, I can see a list of the virtual hosts that I have setup.
I installed KVM by following the SLES docs, i.e., by goinf to Yast > Virtualization > selecting KVM server (the other KVM option, “KVM tools” was grayed out by default, so I only selected KVM server), then accepting. It went through all the zypper-like process with NO aparent errors: all packages downloaded well, all were well installed, I accepted to install network passthrough, and once Yast finished all it didn’t even advised for rebooting, yet I did it anyways.
That’s pretty much identical to what I did. And it all seems to work.
I did use
Yast –> Virtualization –> Create Virtual Machines for XEN and KVM
to install a virtual machine.