21.3 Starting the Installation

To start the new virtual machine and begin installing the guest operating system from the designated installation media, click on the Install button highlighted in Figure 21-3 above. Cockpit will start the virtual machine and switch to the Consoles view where the guest OS screen will appear:

Figure 21-5

If the installation fails, check the message to see if it reads as follows:

Could not open ‘<path to iso image>’: Permission denied

Domain installation does not appear to have been successful.

This usually occurs because the QEMU emulator runs as a user named qemu which does not have access to the directory in which the ISO installation image is located. To resolve this issue, open a terminal window (or connect with SSH if the system is remote), change directory to the location of the ISO image file and add the qemu user to the access control list (ACL) of the parent directory as follows:

# cd /path/to/iso/directory...