When I attempt to create a new VM I get the following error : Unable to complete install '<class 'libvirt.libvirtError'> internal error unable to start guest: qemu: could not open disk image /var/lib/libvirt/images/Test.img: Permission denied Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 1435, in do_install dom = guest.start_install(False, meter = meter) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 660, in start_install return self._do_install(consolecb, meter, removeOld, wait) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 758, in _do_install self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(install_xml, 0) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1077, in createLinux if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self) libvirtError: internal error unable to start guest: qemu: could not open disk image /var/lib/libvirt/images/Test.img: Permission denied The image file Test.img was alredy created using a different image file as base using the following command qemu-img create -b CentOS.img -f qcow2 Test.img File permissions and SELinux Context seems appropriate # ls -Z Test.img -rw-------. root root system_u:object_r:virt_image_t:s0 Torrent.img The image loads without any problems from the command line as root using qemu Test.img
Hmm, I think there are known permission issues with libvirt security drivers and files with backing stores. Can you provide: ls -Z /var/lib/libvirt/images virsh pool-list /var/lib/libvirt/images virsh vol-dumpxml /var/lib/libvirt/images/Test.img Does 'setenforce 0' help? Re-assiging to libvirt.
# ls -Z /var/lib/libvirt/images/ -rw-------. root root system_u:object_r:virt_content_t:s0 CentOS-Base-1.img -rwxr--r--. root root system_u:object_r:virt_content_t:s0 CentOS-Base.img -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:virt_image_t:s0 CentOS-TWiki.img -rwxr--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:virt_image_t:s0 CentOS-Zimbra.img -rw-------. root root system_u:object_r:virt_image_t:s0 Drupal.img -rw-------. root root system_u:object_r:virt_image_t:s0 ProcessMaker.img -rw-------. root root system_u:object_r:virt_image_t:s0 Qmail.img -rw-------. root root system_u:object_r:virt_image_t:s0 Test.img -rw-------. root root system_u:object_r:virt_image_t:s0 WindowsXP.img # virsh pool-list /var/lib/libvirt/images/ error: unexpected data '/var/lib/libvirt/images/' # virsh vol-dumpxml /var/lib/libvirt/images/Test.img <volume> <name>Test.img</name> <key>/var/lib/libvirt/images/Test.img</key> <source> </source> <capacity>25769803776</capacity> <allocation>30613504</allocation> <target> <path>/var/lib/libvirt/images/Test.img</path> <format type='qcow'/> <permissions> <mode>0600</mode> <owner>0</owner> <group>0</group> <label>system_u:object_r:virt_image_t:s0</label> </permissions> </target> <backingStore> <path>/var/lib/libvirt/images/CentOS-Base-1.img</path> <format type='raw'/> <permissions> <mode>0600</mode> <owner>0</owner> <group>0</group> <label>system_u:object_r:virt_content_t:s0</label> </permissions> </backingStore> </volume> SELinux is in permissive mode on purpose because I was getting too much grief from various applications
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I marked the bug as concerning ver 11 of Fedora by mistake. I am using F12 (In reply to comment #3) > This message is a reminder that Fedora 11 is nearing its end of life. > Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining > and issuing updates for Fedora 11. It is Fedora's policy to close all > bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time > this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora > 'version' of '11'. > > Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you > plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' > to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 11's end of life. > > Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that > we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 11 is end of life. If you > would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it > against a later version of Fedora please change the 'version' of this > bug to the applicable version. If you are unable to change the version, > please add a comment here and someone will do it for you. > > Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's > lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a > more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes > bugs or makes them obsolete. > > The process we are following is described here: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
*** Bug 548401 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is fixed upstream, moving to POST.
libvirt-0.7.1-18.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libvirt-0.7.1-18.fc12
libvirt-0.7.1-18.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update libvirt'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libvirt-0.7.1-18.fc12
libvirt-0.7.1-18.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.