Re: can not create the virtual machine

[Thomas Huth]

On 21/10/2024 21.36, Alin Craciunescu wrote:
> I receive this message:
> Unable to complete install: 'internal error: process exited while connecting 
> to monitor: 2024-10-21T19:26:51.030843Z qemu-system-x86_64: -blockdev 
> {"driver":"file","filename":"/home/xyz/Downloads/lubuntu-24.04.1-desktop- 
> amd64 (1).iso","node-name":"libvirt-1-storage","auto-read- 
> only":true,"discard":"unmap"}: Could not open '/home/xyz/Downloads/ 
> lubuntu-24.04.1-desktop-amd64 (1).iso': Permission denied'
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 72, in 
> cb_wrapper
>      callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
>    File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/createvm.py", line 2008, in 
> _do_async_install
>      installer.start_install(guest, meter=meter)
>    File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/install/installer.py", line 695, 
> in start_install
>      domain = self._create_guest(
>               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>    File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/install/installer.py", line 637, 
> in _create_guest
>      domain = self.conn.createXML(initial_xml or final_xml, 0)
>               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 4529, in createXML
>      raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateXML() failed')
> libvirt.libvirtError: internal error: process exited while connecting to 
> monitor: 2024-10-21T19:26:51.030843Z qemu-system-x86_64: -blockdev 
> {"driver":"file","filename":"/home/xyz/Downloads/lubuntu-24.04.1-desktop- 
> amd64 (1).iso","node-name":"libvirt-1-storage","auto-read- 
> only":true,"discard":"unmap"}: Could not open '/home/xyz/Downloads/ 
> lubuntu-24.04.1-desktop-amd64 (1).iso': Permission denied

That could happen if you've got SELinux enabled. Try to put the .iso file 
into /var/lib/libvirt/images instead and then run a "restorecon" on the file.

 HTH,
  Thomas