moving the files to a newly defined storage doesn't work either, getting the same apparmor DENIED. the var-lib-libvirt-images is just the default pool but renamed
$ virsh pool-list Name State Autostart ---------------------------------------------- pool active yes pool-1 active yes var-lib-libvirt-images active yes $ virsh pool-dumpxml pool-1 <pool type='dir'> <name>pool-1</name> <uuid>5f8c0ccb-0603-4d13-925b-6e864ede72d9</uuid> <capacity unit='bytes'>206982873088</capacity> <allocation unit='bytes'>1356070912</allocation> <available unit='bytes'>205626802176</available> <source> </source> <target> <path>/home/user/Desktop</path> <permissions> <mode>0755</mode> <owner>1000</owner> <group>1000</group> </permissions> </target> </pool> $ ls -la ~/Desktop/SLIC -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 374 apr 29 16:54 /home/user/Desktop/SLIC -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1970940 Title: apparmor is preventing access to user copied files in /var/lib/libvirt/images/ thus resulting in failure to start vm To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1970940/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs