[libvirt-users] libvirt 1.19: could not open drive file (permission denied)

crequill crequill at worldonline.fr
Tue Sep 15 17:24:29 UTC 2015


If we cannot use anymore another partitions, for me it's a bug.  Not for you?
For information, I get this error with gnome boxes. With it, images
are in /home/crequill/.local/share/gnome-boxes/images/. How run it?

2015-09-15 17:53 GMT+02:00 crequill <crequill at worldonline.fr>:
> Indeed, I have a link between /var/lib/libvirt/images and my home
> directory on an another partition.
>
> # ls -al /var/lib/libvirt/images
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17  3 sept. 09:29 /var/lib/libvirt/images ->
> /home/crequill/VM
>
> 2015-09-15 17:45 GMT+02:00 Dominique Ramaekers <dominique.ramaekers at cometal.be>:
>> A while ago, I had the same problem. It was a apparmor issue. Maybe your image is on a location outside your storage pools?
>>
>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>> Van: libvirt-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:libvirt-users-bounces at redhat.com] Namens crequill
>> Verzonden: dinsdag 15 september 2015 17:29
>> Aan: libvirt-users at redhat.com
>> Onderwerp: [libvirt-users] libvirt 1.19: could not open drive file (permission denied)
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> With libvrit 1.18 all is working fine: I can  open my win7 VM on Archlinux without problem.
>> But I cannot use it with libvirt 1.19: it could not open drive file (permission denied).
>>
>> In /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf, I have:
>>      - user: root
>>      - group: root
>>
>> And the drive file has root:root as owner.
>>
>> Why this configuration is running with libvirt 1.18 and not with libvirt 1.19 ?
>>
>> Many thanks for your reply.
>> Christophe
>>
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