Description of problem: I tried creating a VM in GNOME Boxes. SELinux is preventing qemu-system-x86 from 'create' accesses on the sock_file debian8.monitor. ***** Plugin catchall_labels (83.8 confidence) suggests ******************* If you want to allow qemu-system-x86 to have create access on the debian8.monitor sock_file Then you need to change the label on debian8.monitor Do # semanage fcontext -a -t FILE_TYPE 'debian8.monitor' where FILE_TYPE is one of the following: qemu_var_run_t, svirt_home_t, svirt_image_t. Then execute: restorecon -v 'debian8.monitor' ***** Plugin catchall (17.1 confidence) suggests ************************** If you believe that qemu-system-x86 should be allowed create access on the debian8.monitor sock_file by default. Then you should report this as a bug. You can generate a local policy module to allow this access. Do allow this access for now by executing: # grep qemu-system-x86 /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol # semodule -i mypol.pp Additional Information: Source Context unconfined_u:unconfined_r:svirt_t:s0:c7,c420 Target Context unconfined_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 Target Objects debian8.monitor [ sock_file ] Source qemu-system-x86 Source Path qemu-system-x86 Port <Unknown> Host (removed) Source RPM Packages Target RPM Packages Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.13.1-152.fc23.noarch Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted Enforcing Mode Permissive Host Name (removed) Platform Linux (removed) 4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Oct 5 15:42:54 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 Alert Count 1 First Seen 2015-10-27 11:14:07 CET Last Seen 2015-10-27 11:14:07 CET Local ID 870ec7e4-445e-41e7-92cd-b5eb79cff4cb Raw Audit Messages type=AVC msg=audit(1445940847.184:658): avc: denied { create } for pid=13731 comm="qemu-system-x86" name="debian8.monitor" scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:svirt_t:s0:c7,c420 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 tclass=sock_file permissive=1 Hash: qemu-system-x86,svirt_t,unlabeled_t,sock_file,create Version-Release number of selected component: selinux-policy-3.13.1-152.fc23.noarch Additional info: reporter: libreport-2.6.2 hashmarkername: setroubleshoot kernel: 4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64 type: libreport
Proposed as a Blocker for 23-final by Fedora user bochecha using the blocker tracking app because: SELinux prevents GNOME Boxes from creating a virtual machine, which I would qualify as "basic functionality" for that application. This violates the "Default application functionality" release criteria.
Couldn't reproduce, see bug 1275603 comment 2.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1275603 ***