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 :|