Comment 32 for bug 1594239

I’m sorry to post as a newbie here. I just want to confirm the bug described above by Kevin Zhao. At least that’s what it sounds like to me. I had a perfectly working VM on Qemu/KVM, with the VirtManager hypervisor, which I have *only* to be able to access an Audigy pci card from Windows XP. After I added a /dev/sbd disk as a device, the VM wouldn’t boot and even froze my system. Then I disconnected the disk from the VM, and now, though it doesn’t crash or freeze, I still can’t get into the VM, and I get the error message below:

«Error starting domain: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2016-11-18T22:45:31.643085Z qemu-system-x86_64: -drive file=/home/[folder]/[folder]/VWinXP.raw,format=raw,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0: Could not open '/home/[folder]/[folder]/VWinXP.raw': Permission denied»

I have changing permissions for the .raw file, but −intriguinly, for a newbie like me− everytime I try to open the VM, the permissions are changed automatically back to:

Owner = Libvirt Qemu
Group = kvm

I know this is not a help forum, but I would be grateful for some feedback. Been trying to fix this non-stop for the last two days.