Creating an VM on CENTOS 8 using cockpit

louisb · 02-19-2020, 07:52 PM

I'm trying to create a VM on CENTOS 8 using cockpit. I have the ISO in my downloads folders with permission set to my logon. I can create the VM however when I try to start the installation I get the following message:

VM VM-CENTOS-7 failed to get installedshow less

ERROR internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2020-02-20T01:40:45.952394Z qemu-kvm: -drive file=/home/louis/Downloads/CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1908.iso,format=raw,if=none,id=drive-sata0-0-0,media=cdrom,readonly=on: Could not open '/home/louis/Downloads/CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1908.iso': Permission denied Domain installation does not appear to have been successful. If it was, you can restart your domain by running: virsh --connect qemu:///system start VM-CENTOS-7 otherwise, please restart your installation.

Can someone tell me why I get the above message? I also recently noticed that permissions changed from my logon to qemu, why?

Thanks

louisb · 02-22-2020, 11:59 AM

I figured it out, I needed to have the ISO in a Storage Pool to load the OS.

Thanks