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BazziteB
Bazzite•14mo ago•
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Permission denied in KVM

No idea if support is made for this but I keep getting this when trying to setup with an ISO in virtmanager.
Installation konnte nicht fertiggestellt werden: «Interner Fehler: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2025-01-06T09:27:26.203709Z qemu-system-x86_64: -blockdev {"driver":"file","filename":"/var/home/andre/VM/Bliss-v16.9.7-x86_64-OFFICIAL-gapps-20241011(1).iso","node-name":"libvirt-1-storage","read-only":true}: Could not open '/var/home/andre/VM/Bliss-v16.9.7-x86_64-OFFICIAL-gapps-20241011(1).iso': Permission denied»

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/app/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 71, in cb_wrapper
    callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/app/share/virt-manager/virtManager/createvm.py", line 2008, in _do_async_install
    installer.start_install(guest, meter=meter)
  File "/app/share/virt-manager/virtinst/install/installer.py", line 726, in start_install
    domain = self._create_guest(
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/app/share/virt-manager/virtinst/install/installer.py", line 667, in _create_guest
    domain = self.conn.createXML(initial_xml or final_xml, 0)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/app/lib/python3.12/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 4545, in createXML
    raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateXML() failed')
libvirt.libvirtError: Interner Fehler: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2025-01-06T09:27:26.203709Z qemu-system-x86_64: -blockdev {"driver":"file","filename":"/var/home/andre/VM/Bliss-v16.9.7-x86_64-OFFICIAL-gapps-20241011(1).iso","node-name":"libvirt-1-storage","read-only":true}: Could not open '/var/home/andre/VM/Bliss-v16.9.7-x86_64-OFFICIAL-gapps-20241011(1).iso': Permission denied
Installation konnte nicht fertiggestellt werden: «Interner Fehler: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2025-01-06T09:27:26.203709Z qemu-system-x86_64: -blockdev {"driver":"file","filename":"/var/home/andre/VM/Bliss-v16.9.7-x86_64-OFFICIAL-gapps-20241011(1).iso","node-name":"libvirt-1-storage","read-only":true}: Could not open '/var/home/andre/VM/Bliss-v16.9.7-x86_64-OFFICIAL-gapps-20241011(1).iso': Permission denied»

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/app/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 71, in cb_wrapper
    callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/app/share/virt-manager/virtManager/createvm.py", line 2008, in _do_async_install
    installer.start_install(guest, meter=meter)
  File "/app/share/virt-manager/virtinst/install/installer.py", line 726, in start_install
    domain = self._create_guest(
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/app/share/virt-manager/virtinst/install/installer.py", line 667, in _create_guest
    domain = self.conn.createXML(initial_xml or final_xml, 0)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/app/lib/python3.12/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 4545, in createXML
    raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateXML() failed')
libvirt.libvirtError: Interner Fehler: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2025-01-06T09:27:26.203709Z qemu-system-x86_64: -blockdev {"driver":"file","filename":"/var/home/andre/VM/Bliss-v16.9.7-x86_64-OFFICIAL-gapps-20241011(1).iso","node-name":"libvirt-1-storage","read-only":true}: Could not open '/var/home/andre/VM/Bliss-v16.9.7-x86_64-OFFICIAL-gapps-20241011(1).iso': Permission denied


I did in fact enable Virtualization, added myself to the libvirt group, install VFIO drivers all via ujust setup-virtualization

The folder and iso have read/write permissions for users, groups, and others

Would like documentation for this too
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