[libvirt-users] qemu - could not load kernel and dynamic ownership setting

Hi, I am getting following 'qemu: could not load kernel' error while trying to create a new VM using virt-install or virt-manager. The software versions are as follows: CentOS 6.2, Libvirt 0.9.4, qemu-kvm 2:0.12.1.2-2.209.el6_2.1. The qemu.conf has disabled dynamic_ownership setting. The VM instantiation has worked fine before when dynamic_ownership was enabled (default). So is this error related to dynamic ownership being disabled? I appreciate any help on how to debug this error further. Also, is there any documentation on why/when dynamic_ownership setting should be used? We have enabled it to figure this out through some test installs but right now unable to move further with the install step itself. {{{ virt-install --connect qemu:///system \ -n $guestname \ -r 512 \ --vcpus=1 \ --os-type=linux \ --os-variant=rhel6 \ --accelerate \ --graphics vnc,keymap=en-us \ -v \ -w bridge:br1 \ --disk path=$datastore/$guestname.img,size=40 \ -l $repo \ -x "ks=$ksurl/$ksfile ksdevice=eth0 ip=$guestip netmask=$netmask nameserver=$nameserver gateway=$gw" }}} {{{ Starting install... Retrieving file .treeinfo... | 798 B 00:00 ... Retrieving file vmlinuz... | 7.5 MB 00:00 ... Retrieving file initrd.img... | 59 MB 00:01 ... Allocating 'virtinst-vmlinuz.l4mEAd' | 3.8 MB 00:00 Transferring virtinst-vmlinuz.l4mEAd | 3.8 MB 00:00 Allocating 'virtinst-initrd.img.IvGhFr' | 29 MB 00:00 Transferring virtinst-initrd.img.IvGhFr | 29 MB 00:05 Creating storage file generic-server.img | 40 GB 00:00 ERROR internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: char device redirected to /dev/pts/1 qemu: could not load kernel '/var/lib/libvirt/boot/virtinst-vmlinuz.l4mEAd': Permission denied Domain installation does not appear to have been successful. }}} -- Thanks, Shantanu