Everyone, I am trying to install KVM on a desktop unit as a lab project with the hope of being able to use kvm on one of our office servers after I learn how. So far I am very low on the learning curve. I have used the guide to make the installation : https://www.linuxtechi.com/install-kvm-hypervisor-on-centos-7-and-rhel- 7/ 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, and making sure the directory permissions are 777 and the file permissions are 666, but have not been able to succeed. A google search demonstrates others have had this problem, and I have tried many of the fixes that have been recorded, but no success. I am running : CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804 (Core) with 3.10.0- 862.6.3.el7.x86_64 kernel CPU : AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core Processor I am using the root account through a konsole interface to activate virt-manager. 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' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 89, in cb_wrapper callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 2545, in _do_async_install guest.start_install(meter=meter) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/guest.py", line 498, in start_install doboot, transient) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/guest.py", line 434, in _create_guest domain = self.conn.createXML(install_xml or final_xml, 0) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 3658, in createXML if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateXML() failed', conn=self) libvirtError: 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 The /var/log/message entries associated with the above error message is the following : Jul 15 08:55:37 HmGp libvirtd: 2018-07-15 13:55:37.922+0000: 1643: error : qemuMonitorOpenUnix:385 : failed to connect to monitor socket: No such process Jul 15 08:55:37 HmGp libvirtd: 2018-07-15 13:55:37.927+0000: 1643: error : qemuProcessReportLogError:1912 : 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 Thanks ahead of time for your help. Greg Ennis