Bug 453938 - SELinux prevented qemu-kvm from reading an LVM logical volume
Summary: SELinux prevented qemu-kvm from reading an LVM logical volume
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: selinux-policy
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Daniel Walsh
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-07-03 11:50 UTC by Ole Sandum
Modified: 2008-07-03 15:26 UTC (History)
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: 491245 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed: 2008-07-03 15:26:39 UTC
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Description Ole Sandum 2008-07-03 11:50:44 UTC 
Description of problem:
> SELinux is preventing qemu-kvm (qemu_t) "getattr" to
/dev/mapper/Volumes-OldWindowsBackup (fixed_disk_device_t). 

Version-Release number:
3.3.1-72.fc9

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a fresh LVM volume and initialize it with some file system
2. add its device file (in /dev/mapper/...) to a QEMU virtual machine as a
storage device (type 'Normal Disk Partition')
3. try to start that virtual machine
  
Actual results:
SELinux denies access as mentioned above. Virtual machine cannot start.
Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2008-07-03 15:26:39 UTC 
In order to get SELinux to work with qemu, you need to make sure this disk is
labeled correctly.

# semanage fcontext -a -t virt_image_t /dev/mapper/Volumes-OldWindowsBackup
# restorecon /dev/mapper/Volumes-OldWindowsBackup

Should allow you to run in enforcingm mode.

Hopefully virtmanager will start doing this automatically.
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