[CentOS] kvm & permission denied

On 07/15/2018 07:16 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> The installation seemed to go well, but when I tried to add Fedora 27
> with virt-manager I have continued to get file permission errors.  I
> have tried turning selinux off,

Don't turn SELinux off.

> and making sure the directory
> permissions are 777 and the file permissions are 666, but have not been
> able to succeed.

Don't completely disable your security systems.

> The Error Message from virt-manager is :
> Unable to complete install: 'internal error: process exited while
> connecting to monitor: 2018-07-15T13:55:37.836269Z qemu-kvm: -drive
> file=/home/greg/Downloads/Fedora/f27/Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-27-
> 1.6.iso,format=raw,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0: Could not open
> '/home/greg/Downloads/Fedora/f27/Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-27-
> 1.6.iso': Permission denied'

/home/greg will be protected from other users by default.  You would 
need to change permissions on that directory from 0700 to 0701 to use an 
ISO there.  The "right" fix, though, would be to copy the ISO file to 
/var/lib/libvirt/images/