On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 07:02:40PM +0200, Roland Giesler wrote: > System: > $ cat /etc/issue > Ubuntu 12.10 \n \l > > $ uname -a > Linux Matt-HP 3.5.0-34-generic #55-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 6 20:20:19 UTC 2013 > i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux > > > I have a converted VMWare virtual machine which I converted by using: > > $ vmware2libvirt -f ./WinXPPro.vmx > WinXPPro.xml > $ virsh -c qemu:///system define WinXPPro.xml You're using 'qemu:///system' here which is a privileged instance of libvirt, where the QEMU process runs as a dedicated user ID. > <disk type='file' device='disk'> > <driver name='qemu' type='vmdk'/> > <source file='/home/roland/WinXPPro/WinXPPro.vmdk'/> > <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> > <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/> > </disk> Here you're putting the disk in /home/roland, and I'm guessing that /home/roload is mode -rwx-------, which will prevent the QEMU user ID from accessing the disk. When using qemu:///system, it is recommended to use /var/lib/libvirt/images as the disk storage location. If you really want to use /home/roland, then make sure it has go+x permission bit set. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
