I’d probably reset the permissions along these lines:
sudo chown -R $USER:libvirt-qemu /home/chris/VMs
chmod -R u+rwX,g+rwX /home/chris/VMs
chmod a+X /home/chris
I’d probably reset the permissions along these lines:
sudo chown -R $USER:libvirt-qemu /home/chris/VMs
chmod -R u+rwX,g+rwX /home/chris/VMs
chmod a+X /home/chris