Bug 819594

Summary:	VirtFS is not writeable on F17
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Boris Derzhavets <bderzhavets>
Component:	libvirt	Assignee:	Libvirt Maintainers <libvirt-maint>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	17	CC:	amit.shah, berrange, cfergeau, clalancette, crobinso, dwmw2, extras-orphan, fedora-ocaml-list, itamar, jforbes, jyang, knoel, laine, libvirt-maint, notting, pbonzini, scottt.tw, veillard, virt-maint
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Description Boris Derzhavets 2012-05-07 16:18:10 UTC

Description of problem:

Update XML definition of VF17 KVM as follows ( via VirtManager)

<filesystem type='mount' accessmode='squash'>
 <source dir='/home/boris'/>
 <target dir='host_share'/>
 <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x08' function='0x0'/>
</filesystem>


Start guest (spice/QXL) and mount :

[boris@fedora17 ~]$ sudo mount -t 9p -o trans=virtio host_share /mnt/host_share -oversion=9p2000.L

[boris@fedora17 ~]$ df -h
Filesystem                       Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs                            15G  4.0G  9.6G  30% /
devtmpfs                         993M     0  993M   0% /dev
tmpfs                           1003M   96K 1002M   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                           1003M  1.3M 1001M   1% /run
/dev/mapper/vg_fedora17-lv_root   15G  4.0G  9.6G  30% /
tmpfs                           1003M     0 1003M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs                           1003M     0 1003M   0% /media
/dev/vda2                        497M   97M  375M  21% /boot
host_share                        61G  9.4G   49G  17% /mnt/host_share


Attempt to copy :

[boris@fedora17 ~]$ sudo cp  test  /mnt/host_share
cp: accessing `/mnt/host_share': Permission denied

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 17


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:

1. Update XML VF17 guest
2. Start VF17 and mount virtfs
3. Attempt to copy text file to virtfs
  
Actual results:

Permission denied

Expected results:

File copyed to /mnt/host_share

Additional info:

Comment 1 Boris Derzhavets 2012-05-07 18:19:27 UTC

Option security_model=passthrough works for qemu-kvm command line, but 
change accessmode (XML) to 'passthrough' doesn't help

Comment 2 Paolo Bonzini 2012-09-11 10:22:39 UTC

Moving to libvirt.

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Comment 4 Cole Robinson 2013-07-11 18:12:40 UTC

Apparently the passthrough model just doesn't work unless qemu is running as root, which isn't the default case when using libvirt. mapped seems to work for at least creating files.