It looks there is a typo in the "/var/lib/libvirt/images/test.img" Maybe a " ' " to much or less. Kind regards, Ron de Kuijer ________________________________________ From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Aaron Siegel [admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 02:32 To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: KVM-Qemu could not open disk image Hello I have installed an evaluation of RHEL 7. I receive an error when trying to install a virtual machine using virt-manager. I receive the following errow when KVM is initiated: Unable to complete install: 'internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: qemu-kvm: -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/test.img,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=raw,cache=none: could not open disk image /var/lib/libvirt/images/test.img: Could not open file: Invalid argument ' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 100, in cb_wrapper callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 1925, in do_install guest.start_install(False, meter=meter) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/Guest.py", line 1143, in start_install noboot) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/Guest.py", line 1211, in _create_guest dom = self.conn.createLinux(start_xml or final_xml, 0) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 2892, in createLinux if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self) libvirtError: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: qemu-kvm: -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/test.img,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=raw,cache=none: could not open disk image /var/lib/libvirt/images/test.img: Could not open file: Invalid argument I have edited the user and group in the /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf file to different and chown the directory /var/lib/libvirt/qemu. I have also allowed rw to everyone to the entire /var/lib/libvirt directory. Nothing is working. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list