Solved Virt-Manager on Ubuntu 20.04 Getting Cannot Access Storage File Permission Denied

[scottalanmiller]

I have existing VMs that worked under Ubuntu 19.04. I did a fresh install of 20.04 and now get this error...

Unable to complete install: 'Cannot access storage file '/path/to/vms' (as uid:64055, gid:108): Permission denied'

I can't find any way around it. Not making it 777, not running virt-manager as root, nothing. It just always gives that error. Ideas?

[scottalanmiller]

Went through EVERY suggesting on permissions, but in the end, the only thing that worked at all was moving it to run as root. Works now.

[scottalanmiller]

To do that....

Edit...

sudo vi /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf

And set...

user = "root"
group = "root"

And then...

sudo systemctl restart libvirtd