KVM/QEMU Not allowing me to use External 2TB HDD as a place to store VM's on

[MilkJug12]

Im trying to install a VM to my 2TB HDD that I want to be primarily for VMs while I have manjaro on my 1 TB ssd, I have the qcow2 file on it its just keeps saying: "Unable to complete install: ‘Cannot access storage file ‘/run/media/milkjug/Data/VM/win10.qcow2’ (as uid:65534, gid:992): Permission denied’
Is there any way to fix this?

[Aragorn]

Not a direct reply to your question, but the post below contains information on how to statically mount external drives.

Shared HDD (win e Manjaro) error read-only file system

NTFS is not a POSIX-compatible filesystem and does not store POSIX file ownership information or permissions. This means that the ownership and permissions must be emulated by the Linux kernel upon mounting the filesystem into the virtual filesystem layer. Given that the filesystem is mounted somewhere under the /run hierarchy ─ which only exists in memory while the system is up and running, because /run itself is mounted as a tmpfs ─ you are obviously relying on the automagic from the udisks2 …

/run is for dynamically/automatically mounted stuff, and its permissions are applied on-the-fly by the system at mount time. That is neither reliable nor optimal, as you’ve discovered.

[MilkJug12]

Thanks for this, im going to try this out and see if it works!

[MilkJug12]

I think it worked, tho it is still saying when I try to make a vm in the folder I made in /home/ saying my sdd’s total storage but not saying 2TB

[MilkJug12]

But rn I have some issues with kvm/qemu when I try to install windows where it boots up to the windows loading screen but doesn’t get to the installer and then it crashes.