Bug 672585

Summary: RFE: virt-install should try harder to diagnose Permission Denied errors
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component: python-virtinstAssignee: Cole Robinson <crobinso>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2011-01-25 16:49:24 UTC 
Description of problem:

If you try to install from an ISO image located in your home
directory, with the normal permissions on the home directory
(0700) then you'll get a permission denied error like this:

ERROR    internal error Process exited while reading console log output: char device redirected to /dev/pts/4
qemu: could not open disk image /home/rjones/tmp/RHEL6.0-20100922.1-Server-x86_64-DVD1.iso: Permission denied

It was very unclear to me what the permission problem was, since
the file itself was 0644 and had the right SELinux labels.

virt-install could do better here.  Before passing the image to
libvirt, it could walk up the tree checking each file and directory
and warning on possible permissions problems.

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Actually I'm using RHEL 6:
python-virtinst-0.500.3-7.el6.noarch
Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2012-01-25 18:45:03 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 598175 ***