I run opensuse tumbleweed and I have create a container using distrobox and podman with ubuntu 24.04 and I have succesfully install and run anydesk from it with the deb file. I consider to do the same with Private Internet Acces (PIA) Vpn.
The first question is it possible to run a vpn (piavpn in particular) through distrobox?
And if is that possible, please help me to solve the errors throuch installlation procces
https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/409cba05ba4a
Basically the installation interupteted and then the message come on:
“System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can’t operate.
Failed to connect to bus: Host is down”
When I try to run sudo systemctl status piavpn service (or any other service) the above error occur. But I have systemd!
I tried a distrobox running Arch and install piavpn through aur with yay. The same problem… 
What packages you have and what additional flags you have when creating distrobox?
You need to create minimum --root --init --systrmd and install lots of packages and it probably going to fail still due user permissions
Best way is to install your VPN to base image starigh
Thanks for the reply. No flags, only name flag
I am not familiar with containers other than distrobox (with podman), but I can try when i find the time. Meanwhile I tested surfshark vpn and purevpn, work smoothly on opensuse with snap packages, maybe i cancel my subscription for piavpn, don’t want the frustration…
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After some more attempts with system and root distrobox, I decided to use vpn manually through network manager. Its not solution, but at least I can connect to vpn servers from countries I want…