On 4/14/26 06:17, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
All,
I get the following error message when attempting to create a new VM:
Unable to complete install: 'internal error: process exited while
connecting to monitor: 2026-04-14T01:08:55.396273Z qemu-system-x86_64:
-blockdev
{"driver":"file","filename":"/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/Fedora-Budgie-Live-44_Beta-1.2.x86_64.iso","node-name":"libvirt-1-storage","read-only":true}:
Could not open
'/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/Fedora-Budgie-Live-44_Beta-1.2.x86_64.iso':
Permission denied'
Is any part of this path
"/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/Fedora-Budgie-Live-44_Beta-1.2.x86_64.iso"
is a link to another location?
You need to make sure that you have Storage Pool set to this path:
"/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora", otherwise VMM won't find the file.
If your storage pool path is "/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions" you can
create links to desired images, so you won't have to create multiple
storage pools for everything, like so:
$ ls -lAh --group-directories-first "/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions"
total 1.0G
drwxr-xr-x 2 tmb tmb 4.0K Jan 01 00:01 Fedora
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tmb tmb 69 Jan 01 00:01
Fedora-Budgie-Live-44_Beta-1.2.x86_64.iso ->
/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/Fedora-Budgie-Live-44_Beta-1.2.x86_64.iso
This is what my setup of Storage Pool named "OS Images" looks like:
$ sudo virsh pool-dumpxml "OS Images"
<pool type='dir'>
<name>OS Images</name>
<uuid>48497802-669d-4120-9796-d433b28a4e1c</uuid>
<capacity unit='bytes'>286337740800</capacity>
<allocation unit='bytes'>242878160896</allocation>
<available unit='bytes'>43459579904</available>
<source>
</source>
<target>
<path>/home/user/Downloads/Distrib/OS</path>
<permissions>
<mode>0755</mode>
<owner>1000</owner>
<group>1000</group>
</permissions>
</target>
</pool>
$ ls -lAh --group-directories-first /home/user/Downloads/Distrib/OS
total 8.5G
drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4.0K Dec 6 01:24 Debian
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 69 Jan 25 15:01
debian-13.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso ->
/home/user/Downloads/Distrib/OS/Debian/debian-13.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso
$ ls -lAh --group-directories-first /home/user/Downloads/Distrib/OS/Debian
total 785M
-rw-rw-r-- 1 libvirt-qemu libvirt-qemu 784M Dec 6 01:24
debian-13.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso
I hope it makes sense.
--
With kindest regards, Alexander.
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