vmm and read/write permissions on external storage

[Kitty Weg]

Problem solved, thanks Moshe Rechtman! Solution - make the mount permanent
instead of /run/media

Kind regards,


Kitty Weg

Technical Support Engineer

Red Hat Israel <https://www.redhat.com/>

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On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 3:59 PM Kitty Weg <kweg at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am a technical support engineer at Red Hat and need to build local
> virtual labs to both learn and recreate cases.
>
> I don't have enough space on my laptop for virtual machines, so I
> connected a Western Digital 4TB external media formatted with ext4 and with
> 777 read and write permissions, recursive.
>
> When I create storage img, for example; qemu-img create -f qcow2
> /name.qcow2 60G and I try to use it as the designated storage when creating
> the vm with vmm, I get the attached error message. If I choose to correct
> it as the message suggests, it just gives me another error.
>
> Can anyone assist with this please?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> Kitty Weg
>
> Technical Support Engineer
>
> Red Hat Israel <https://www.redhat.com/>
>
> 34 Jerusalem rd. Ra'anana, 43501
>
> *kweg at redhat.com <kweg at redhat.com> *  T: *+972-9-**7692287 *
> M: *+972-54-5664256*   F: +972-9-7692223
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