I looked into this a little more and believe this is a limitation of libvirt and kvm interaction. kvm doesn't seem to have a way to specify the image is readonly. The best option is to suppress the denied message since it will happen every time and lead to confusion in normal use (and debugging).
** Summary changed: - libvirt via virt-manager tries to write to a readonly ISO image + libvirt tries to write to open a file with write permissions for a readonly ISO image ** Summary changed: - libvirt tries to write to open a file with write permissions for a readonly ISO image + apparmor complains about write access to a readonly ISO image ** Changed in: libvirt (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: libvirt (Ubuntu) Milestone: None => ubuntu-9.10 ** Changed in: libvirt (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) ** Also affects: libvirt (Ubuntu Karmic) Importance: Low Assignee: Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) Status: Triaged -- apparmor complains about write access to a readonly ISO image https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/453335 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs