Why mounting a virt image on the host causes permissions errors with guestmount as root?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Guestmount was used to mount a snapshot of the guest's disk image, which seems to work very well unless you want to use it as root, as access is prevented

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Guestmount version lower than 1.20.11-7.el6

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