Bug 1363634 - Can't create snapshot when dynamic_ownership=0
Summary: Can't create snapshot when dynamic_ownership=0
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Status: NEW
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Product: Virtualization Tools
Classification: Community
Component: libvirt
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2016-08-03 09:07 UTC by Mateusz Kwiatkowski
Modified: 2018-07-18 14:58 UTC (History)
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Description Mateusz Kwiatkowski 2016-08-03 09:07:46 UTC
Description of problem:
It's not possible to create snapshot with virsh when dynamic_ownership set to 0 . I tested this on CentOS 7 with SELinux set to permissive mode and on Arch Linux without SELinux.

root@shiva /home/virtkick/hdd # virsh snapshot-create-as --domain 1_kwiat-test_cc789778-ea62-44a9-ac04-fc4a136131d4 snapshot-kwiat --diskspec vda,file=/home/virtkick/hdd/snapshot-1_kwiat-test_cc789778-ea62-44a9-ac04-fc4a136131d4.qcow2 --disk-only --atomic
error: internal error: unable to execute QEMU command 'transaction': Could not create file: Permission denied

Logs indicate that file is actually being created.

/var/log/libvirt/qemu/1_kwiat-test_cc789778-ea62-44a9-ac04-fc4a136131d4.log:

Formatting '/home/virtkick/hdd/snapshot-1_kwiat-test_cc789778-ea62-44a9-ac04-fc4a136131d4.qcow2', fmt=qcow2 size=26843545600 backing_file='/home/virtkick/hdd/1_kwiat-test_cc789778-ea62-44a9-ac04-fc4a136131d4.qcow2' backing_fmt='qcow2' encryption=off cluster_size=65536 lazy_refcounts=off

However qemu process can't open it:


open("/home/virtkick/hdd/snapshot-1_kwiat-test_cc789778-ea62-44a9-ac04-fc4a136131d4.qcow2", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
open("/home/virtkick/hdd/snapshot-1_kwiat-test_cc789778-ea62-44a9-ac04-fc4a136131d4.qcow2", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_CLOEXEC, 0644) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Tested on:
 - CentOS7 with libvirt-1.2.17-13.el7_2.5.x86_64, qemu-2.0.0-1.el7.6.x86_64
 - Arch Linux with libvirt 2.0.0-1, qemu 2.6.0-1

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. In /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf set dynamic_ownership=0.
2. Create new virtual machine
3. Try to create snapshot of that virtual machine using virsh snapshot-create-as command

Known workaround is to touch the snapshot file before creating the snapshot, and chown it to user and group defined in qemu.conf.

Actual results:
Snapshot is not created due to EACCESS error.


Expected results:
Snapshot is created.


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