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    Solved Virt-Manager on Ubuntu 20.04 Getting Cannot Access Storage File Permission Denied

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    • scottalanmiller
      scottalanmiller last edited by

      I have existing VMs that worked under Ubuntu 19.04. I did a fresh install of 20.04 and now get this error...

      Unable to complete install: 'Cannot access storage file '/path/to/vms' (as uid:64055, gid:108): Permission denied'

      I can't find any way around it. Not making it 777, not running virt-manager as root, nothing. It just always gives that error. Ideas?

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      • scottalanmiller
        scottalanmiller last edited by

        Went through EVERY suggesting on permissions, but in the end, the only thing that worked at all was moving it to run as root. Works now.

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        • scottalanmiller
          scottalanmiller last edited by

          Went through EVERY suggesting on permissions, but in the end, the only thing that worked at all was moving it to run as root. Works now.

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          • scottalanmiller
            scottalanmiller last edited by

            To do that....

            Edit...

            sudo vi /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf
            

            And set...

            user = "root"
            group = "root"
            

            And then...

            sudo systemctl restart libvirtd
            
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