All,
I get the following error message when attempting to create a new VM:
Unable to complete install: 'internal error: process exited while
connecting to monitor: 2026-04-14T01:08:55.396273Z qemu-system-x86_64: -blockdev {"driver":"file","filename":"/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/Fedora-Budgie-Live-44_Beta-1.2.x86_64.iso","node-name":"libvirt-1-storage","read-only":true}:
Could not open '/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/Fedora-Budgie-Live-44_Beta-1.2.x86_64.iso':
Permission denied'
I am using VMM Version 5.1.0.
I set the ISO file permissions to allow full access.
$ ls -l ./
total 9416244
-rwxrwxrwx 1 libvirt-qemu libvirt-qemu 3025334272 <http://voice.google.com/calls?a=nc,%2B13025334272>Apr 13 09:38 Fedora-Budgie-Live-44_Beta-1.2.x86_64.iso
-rwxrwxrwx 1 libvirt-qemu libvirt-qemu 3265843200 <http://voice.google.com/calls?a=nc,%2B13265843200>Mar 24 04:37 Fedora-KDE-Desktop-Live-43-1.6.x86_64.iso
-rwxrwxrwx 1 libvirt-qemu libvirt-qemu 3350886400 <http://voice.google.com/calls?a=nc,%2B13350886400>Apr 13 08:08 Fedora-KDE-Desktop-Live-44_Beta-1.2.x86_64.iso
I am running Forkey/Trixie. Is anyone else having any issues with VMM.
Thanks
Tim
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??, 14 ???. 2026??. ? 09:29, Tim
othy M Butterworth
<timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com>:

Unable to complete install: 'internal error: process exited while connect

ing to monitor: 2026-04-14T01:08:55.396273Z qemu-system-x86_64: -blockdev { "driver":"file","filename":"/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/Fedora-Bud gie-Live-44_Beta-1.2.x86_64.iso","node-name":"libvirt-1-storage","read-only ":true}: Could not open '/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/Fedora-Budgie -Live-44_Beta-1.2.x86_64.iso': Permission denied'

I am using VMM Version 5.1.0.

I don't use it, so may be wrong, but

I set the ISO file permissions to allow full access.
$ ls -l ./

try to see
ls -ld /home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/
/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/ /home/tmb/Linux/ /home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/ /home/tmb/ /home/

I think, your soft can't get access to some directories.

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On 4/14/26 06:17, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:

All,

I get the following error message when attempting to create a new VM:

Unable to complete install: 'internal error: process exited while
connecting to monitor: 2026-04-14T01:08:55.396273Z qemu-system-x86_64: -blockdev {"driver":"file","filename":"/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/Fedora-Budgie-Live-44_Beta-1.2.x86_64.iso","node-name":"libvirt-1-storage","read-only":true}:
Could not open '/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/Fedora-Budgie-Live-44_Beta-1.2.x86_64.iso':
Permission denied'

Is any part of this path "/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/Fedora-Budgie-Live-44_Beta-1.2.x86_64.iso"
is a link to another location?
You need to make sure that you have Storage Pool set to this path: "/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora", otherwise VMM won't find the file.
If your storage pool path is "/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions" you can
create links to desired images, so you won't have to create multiple
storage pools for everything, like so:
$ ls -lAh --group-directories-first "/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions"
total 1.0G
drwxr-xr-x 2 tmb? ? ? ? ??tmb? ? ? ? ? 4.0K Jan 01 00:01 Fedora
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tmb? ? ? ? ??tmb? ? ? ? ? ? 69 Jan 01 00:01 Fedora-Budgie-Live-44_Beta-1.2.x86_64.iso -> /home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/Fedora-Budgie-Live-44_Beta-1.2.x86_64.iso

This is what my setup of Storage Pool named "OS Images" looks like:
$ sudo virsh pool-dumpxml "OS Images"
<pool type='dir'>
? <name>OS Images</name>
? <uuid>48497802-669d-4120-9796-d433b28a4e1c</uuid>
? <capacity unit='bytes'>286337740800</capacity>
? <allocation unit='bytes'>242878160896</allocation>
? <available unit='bytes'>43459579904</available>
? <source>
? </source>
? <target>
<path>/home/user/Downloads/Distrib/OS</path>
? ? <permissions>
? ? ? <mode>0755</mode>
? ? ? <owner>1000</owner>
? ? ? <group>1000</group>
? ? </permissions>
? </target>
</pool>
$ ls -lAh --group-directories-first /home/user/Downloads/Distrib/OS
total 8.5G
drwxr-xr-x 2 user? ? ? ? ? user? ? ? ? ? 4.0K Dec? 6 01:24 Debian
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user? ? ? ? ? user? ? ? ? ? ? 69 Jan 25 15:01 debian-13.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso -> /home/user/Downloads/Distrib/OS/Debian/debian-13.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso
$ ls -lAh --group-directories-first /home/user/Downloads/Distrib/OS/Debian total 785M
-rw-rw-r-- 1 libvirt-qemu libvirt-qemu 784M Dec? 6 01:24 debian-13.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso
I hope it makes sense.
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On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 5:09?AM john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> wrote:

On 4/14/26 03:17, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:

All,

I get the following error message when attempting to create a new VM:

Unable to complete install: 'internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2026-04-14T01:08:55.396273Z qemu-system-x86_64: -blockdev

{"driver":"file","filename":"/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/Fedora-Budgie-Live-44_Beta-1.2.x86_64.iso","node-name":"libvirt-1-storage","read-only":true}:

Could not open

'/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/Fedora-Budgie-Live-44_Beta-1.2.x86_64.iso':

Permission denied'

Try to put the ISO in "/var/lib/libvirt/images". If it works, emulate
the permissions to the other path.

Thanks, I copied the iso files to: /var/lib/libvirt/images and now they
work. It is strange as I did not have to do this before. I have been
messing around with SELinux and AppArmour though so they could be the
culprit. Regular permissions are likely not the issue.
Thanks
Tim

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??, 14 ???. 2026??. ? 18:04, Tim
othy M Butterworth
<timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com>:

Try to put the ISO in "/var/lib/libvirt/images". If it works, emulate
the permissions to the other path.

Thanks, I copied the iso files to: /var/lib/libvirt/images and now they w

ork. It is strange as I did not have to do this before. I have been messing
around with SELinux and AppArmour though so they could be the culprit. Reg ular permissions are likely not the issue.

Need permission to cd in all directories in path to images. I think
your home directory does not have +x to other.

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On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 01:18:03PM +0500, Stanislav Vlasov wrote:

??, 14 ???. 2026??. ? 09:29, Timothy M Butterworth:

Unable to complete install: 'internal
error: process exited while connecting to
monitor: 2026-04-14T01:08:55.396273Z qemu-system-x86_64: -blockdev {"driver":"file","filename":"/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/Fedora-Budgie-Live-44_Beta-1.2.x86_64.iso","node-name":"libvirt-1-storage","read-only":true}:
Could not open '/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/Fedora-Budgie-Live-44_Beta-1.2.x86_64.iso':
Permission denied'

I am using VMM Version 5.1.0.

I don't use it,

I would like to know more about the VMM that original poster is using.

There is "VMM" of BSD fame. (I don't know if it is FreeBSD or OpenBSD)

The "VMM" that is is in Debian:

stappers@paddy:~
% apt-file search bin/vmm
vmm: /usr/sbin/vmm
vmms-common: /usr/bin/vmms-manage
vmms-common: /usr/bin/vmms-upload-workflow
vmms-common: /usr/bin/vmms-worker
stappers@paddy:~
% apt show vmm
Package: vmm
Version: 0.7.0-1
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
Installed-Size: 441 kB
Depends: python3-psycopg2, python3:any, dovecot-core (>= 2)
Recommends: postfix, postfix-pgsql, dovecot-lmtpd (>= 2), dovecot-pgsql (>= 2), postgresql-client, python3-crypt-r
Homepage: http://vmm.localdomain.org/
Download-Size: 119 kB
APT-Sources: http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages Description: manage mail domains/accounts/aliases for Dovecot and Postfix
Virtual Mail Manager is a command-line tool for administrators/postmasters to
manage (alias-)domains, accounts, aliases and relocated users. It is designed
for Dovecot and Postfix with a PostgreSQL backend.

stappers@paddy:~
%

I don't use it, so may be wrong, but

I set the ISO file permissions to allow full access.
$ ls -l ./

try to see
ls -ld /home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/ \

/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/ /home/tmb/Linux/ \
/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/ /home/tmb/ /home/

I think, your software can't get access to some directories.

Yes, that is also how I read

Could not open '/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/Fedora-Budgie-Live-44_Beta-1.2.x86_64.iso':
Permission denied'

Sharing the output of

ls -ld /home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/ \
/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/ /home/tmb/Linux/ \
/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/ /home/tmb/ /home/ \
/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/Fedora-Budgie-Live-44_Beta-1.2.x86_64.iso

will get more light on the issue.


Groeten
Geert Stappers
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On 4/16/26 01:10, Geert Stappers wrote:

On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 01:18:03PM +0500, Stanislav Vlasov wrote:

\u0432\u0442, 14 \u0430\u043f\u0440. 2026\u202f\u0433. \u0432 09:29, Timothy M Butterworth:

Unable to complete install: 'internal
error: process exited while connecting to
monitor: 2026-04-14T01:08:55.396273Z qemu-system-x86_64: -blockdev
{"driver":"file","filename":"/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/Fedora-Budgie-Live-44_Beta-1.2.x86_64.iso","node-name":"libvirt-1-storage","read-only":true}:
Could not open
'/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/Fedora-Budgie-Live-44_Beta-1.2.x86_64.iso':
Permission denied'

I am using VMM Version 5.1.0.

I don't use it,

I would like to know more about the VMM that original poster is using.

...

VMM is an acronym for "Virtual Machine Manager".
The package name is "virt-manager".
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On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 4:10?PM Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl> wrote:

On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 01:18:03PM +0500, Stanislav Vlasov wrote:

??, 14 ???. 2026??. ? 09:29, Timothy M Butterworth:

Unable to complete install: 'internal
error: process exited while connecting to
monitor: 2026-04-14T01:08:55.396273Z qemu-system-x86_64: -blockdev

{"driver":"file","filename":"/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/Fedora-Budgie-Live-44_Beta-1.2.x86_64.iso","node-name":"libvirt-1-storage","read-only":true}:

Could not open

'/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/Fedora-Budgie-Live-44_Beta-1.2.x86_64.iso':

Permission denied'

I am using VMM Version 5.1.0.

I don't use it,

I would like to know more about the VMM that original poster is using.

VMM Virtual Machine Manager is a GUI for KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine.
The package is virt-manager.
virt-manager/testing,now 1:5.1.0-1 all [installed]
desktop application for managing virtual machines
The executable is /usr/bin/virt-manager.

There is "VMM" of BSD fame. (I don't know if it is FreeBSD or OpenBSD)

The "VMM" that is is in Debian:

stappers@paddy:~
% apt-file search bin/vmm
vmm: /usr/sbin/vmm
vmms-common: /usr/bin/vmms-manage
vmms-common: /usr/bin/vmms-upload-workflow
vmms-common: /usr/bin/vmms-worker
stappers@paddy:~
% apt show vmm
Package: vmm
Version: 0.7.0-1
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
Installed-Size: 441 kB
Depends: python3-psycopg2, python3:any, dovecot-core (>= 2)
Recommends: postfix, postfix-pgsql, dovecot-lmtpd (>= 2), dovecot-pgsql

= 2), postgresql-client, python3-crypt-r

Homepage: http://vmm.localdomain.org/
Download-Size: 119 kB
APT-Sources: http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages Description: manage mail domains/accounts/aliases for Dovecot and Postfix
Virtual Mail Manager is a command-line tool for
administrators/postmasters to
manage (alias-)domains, accounts, aliases and relocated users. It is designed
for Dovecot and Postfix with a PostgreSQL backend.

stappers@paddy:~
%

I don't use it, so may be wrong, but

I set the ISO file permissions to allow full access.
$ ls -l ./

try to see
ls -ld /home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/ \

/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/ /home/tmb/Linux/ \
/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/ /home/tmb/ /home/

I think, your software can't get access to some directories.

Yes, that is also how I read

Could not open

'/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/Fedora-Budgie-Live-44_Beta-1.2.x86_64.iso':

Permission denied'

Sharing the output of

ls -ld /home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/ \
/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/ /home/tmb/Linux/ \
/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/ /home/tmb/ /home/ \

/home/tmb/Linux/Distributions/Fedora/Fedora-Budgie-Live-44_Beta-1.2.x86_64.iso

will get more light on the issue.

Groeten
Geert Stappers
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