openmediavault-kvm plugin + libvirt-qemu user

I wantedt to test the KVM plugin so I played around with it following the according omv wiki and this tutorial:

Starting a VM I got this message

Searching the internet and the forum I found this post by ryecoaaron saying to chown the *.qcow2 to libvirt-qemu user

Now do I have to do it with every new machine? Is there a way to do it in GUI (I don't have a problem using the terminal but why is there no way to do it in GUI if it seems to be important?)? Why does it seem to work in the video without chown'ing?

I had to stop ty tinkering before chown'ing so I can't report more.

Thanks for your reply.

But are you sure? Because in the wiki it is said

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These folders are now owned by the root user and the users group and have 2775 permissions, that's enough for it to work.

The libvirt-qemu user (id=64055) must have path access to these folders, make sure of this if you choose another way to create those folders.

omv7:omv7_plugins:kvm [omv-extras.org]

I just tried a fresh ubuntu server iso with no luck, still the same error:

with ls -la

drwxrws--- 2 root users 4096 29. Jan 21:20 .

drwx--x---+ 4 root root 4096 29. Jan 20:55 ..

-rw------- 1 libvirt-qemu libvirt 26847870976 29. Jan 21:16 ubuntu-server.qcow2

-rw------- 1 root users 26847870976 29. Jan 21:11 ubuntu-server.qcow2.bak

Will need further investigation I guess...

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Edit:
After chown'ing the whole directory I was able to install ubuntu.

Next thing I will try is HA.

Quote from ryecoaaron

Did you create more than one subfolder in the path when creating the shared folder?

Your guess is right, I structured it like this:

/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-ed51370e-93c2-4113-953a-41e9666acb96/

├── kvm

│   ├── KVM_ISOs

│   │   └── ubuntu-24.04.1-live-server-amd64.iso

│   └── KVM_Volumes

│   ├── ubuntu-server.qcow2

│   └── ubuntu-server.qcow2.bak

└── lost+found

Edit:

Oh, the *.qcow2 were of course meant to be inside the KVM_Volumes folder - I will check this.

I could get hold of a decent HP400G4 so I now mess around with this machine.

Therefore I deleted everything KVM related on my OMV and no need to dive deeper into this.

Thank you so far for your assistance!