Solved: VM Permission Denied

[CENTosUser33]

A CENTOS 6 64-bit Virtual Machine Manager is unable to complete the installation of a new VM due to insufficient permissions.

We have already taken the following steps in order to resolve the Virtual Machine Manager's error message pursuant to recommendations in other Linux forums.

A. Set SELinux at Permissive.

B. Disable SELinux.

C. Provide qemu user (root) with 777 priviledges.

D. Change ACL permissions.

E. Reboot Machine.

These approaches have not resolved the question, and we now request support from the Linux Forums community.

Ongoing Discussions:

(FedoraForum: Fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=256578 ) (CENTOS Forum: Centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=33422&start=0#forumpost1475 79 )

ERROR MESSAGE:

CENTOS_6_64-bit

Unable to complete install '<class 'libvirt.libvirtError'> internal error Process exited while reading console log output: char device redirected to /dev/pts/2
qemu: could not open disk image /var/lib/libvirt/images/server1.example.com.img:

Permission denied

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 1561, in do_install
dom = guest.start_install(False, meter = meter)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 973, in start_install
return self._do_install(consolecb, meter, removeOld, wait)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 1038, in _do_install
"install")
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 1009, in _create_guest
dom = self.conn.createLinux(start_xml, 0)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1270, in createLinux
if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self)
libvirtError: internal error Process exited while reading console log output: char device redirected to /dev/pts/2

qemu: could not open disk image /var/lib/libvirt/images/server1.example.com.img:

Permission denied

[CENTosUser33]

Solution:

Provide "Other" with execute permissions to the /home/username and /var/etc/libvirt/ directories.

Source: libvirt.org/drvqemu.html