[Solved] Qemu/KVM virt-manager "KVM: Permission denied"

Utini · 2015-11-14 13:14:09

Hey there,

today I installed Qemu + libvirt + virt-manager and tried installing windows 8.1 via virt-manager. As soon as I finish "creating the virtual machine" I recieve the following error:

nable to complete install: 'internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: Could not access KVM kernel module: Permission denied
failed to initialize KVM: 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 1873, in do_install
    guest.start_install(meter=meter)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/guest.py", line 414, in start_install
    noboot)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/guest.py", line 478, in _create_guest
    dom = self.conn.createLinux(start_xml or final_xml, 0)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 3604, in createLinux
    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self)
libvirtError: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: Could not access KVM kernel module: Permission denied
failed to initialize KVM: Permission denied

Outputs:

sneida@_____:~$ sudo systemctl start libvirtd.service
sneida@_____:~$ sudo zgrep CONFIG_KVM /proc/config.gz
[sudo] password for sneida: 
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for sneida: 
CONFIG_KVM_GUEST=y
# CONFIG_KVM_DEBUG_FS is not set
CONFIG_KVM_APIC_ARCHITECTURE=y
CONFIG_KVM_MMIO=y
CONFIG_KVM_ASYNC_PF=y
CONFIG_KVM_VFIO=y
CONFIG_KVM_GENERIC_DIRTYLOG_READ_PROTECT=y
CONFIG_KVM_COMPAT=y
CONFIG_KVM=m
CONFIG_KVM_INTEL=m
CONFIG_KVM_AMD=m
CONFIG_KVM_MMU_AUDIT=y
CONFIG_KVM_DEVICE_ASSIGNMENT=y
sneida@_____:~$ lsmod | grep kvm
kvm_intel             163840  0
kvm                   446464  1 kvm_intel
sneida@_____:~$ lsmod | grep virtio
sneida@_____:~$ lsmod | grep kvm_intel
kvm_intel             163840  0
kvm                   446464  1 kvm_intel
sneida@_____:~$ zgrep CONFIG_VIRTIO /proc/config.gz
CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK=m
CONFIG_VIRTIO_NET=m
CONFIG_VIRTIO_CONSOLE=m
CONFIG_VIRTIO=m
CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI=m
CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI_LEGACY=y
CONFIG_VIRTIO_BALLOON=m
CONFIG_VIRTIO_INPUT=m
CONFIG_VIRTIO_MMIO=m
CONFIG_VIRTIO_MMIO_CMDLINE_DEVICES=y

Any ideas? Thanks !

@edit: Nevermind, a reboot of the host machine fixed it.

Last edited by Utini (2015-11-14 13:22:04)

Utini · 2015-11-14 13:22:20

Nevermind, a reboot of the host machine fixed it.

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#1 2015-11-14 13:14:09

[Solved] Qemu/KVM virt-manager "KVM: Permission denied"

#2 2015-11-14 13:22:20

Re: [Solved] Qemu/KVM virt-manager "KVM: Permission denied"

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