Why does qemu user own the vm disk images for VMs deployed using virt-manager?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • We deployed VMs using virt-manager on RHEL 6.3 host.
  • User and group owner for these VM disk images is qemu:qemu.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 and above
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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