I am trying to migrate a KVM guest from one Ubuntu 14.04 host to another by following the steps outlined here.

I now have the "state" file, xml configuration, and qcow2 img file in a single folder on the new host, and made sure to update the xml configuration to point to the new location of the qcow2 image file.

When I try to run virsh create [guest-id].xml I get the following error message:

error: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 

qemu-system-x86_64: -drive file=/media/stuart/storage2/kvm/dns.technostu.com/dns.technostu.com.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw: 

could not open disk image /media/stuart/storage2/kvm/dns.technostu.com/dns.technostu.com.img: 

Could not open '/media/stuart/storage2/kvm/dns.technostu.com/dns.technostu.com.img': Permission denied

Debugging and Attempted workarounds

• I have already added myself to the libvirtd group and re-logged in.

  
  



• I made sure the filepaths were correct

  
  



• I changed the ownership of the .img file to myself, but after running the command with and without sudo, the ownership of the file keeps changing to root:root with permissions -rwxr-xr-x

  
  



• I tried running

  
  

  sudo apt-get install apparmor-profiles apparmor-utils
  
  sudo aa-complain /usr/lib/libvirt/virt-aa-helper
  
  

  
  

  From this post, but that hasn't worked.

  
  



• I tried changing the emulator in the xml file as specified here.

  
  

What do I need to do in order to "import" the guest on the new host on Ubuntu 14.04?