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Bug 720811

Summary: SELinux prevents vdsm/libvirt from executing qemu-kvm.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Brandon Perkins <bperkins>
Component: vdsmAssignee: Dan Kenigsberg <danken>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: yeylon <yeylon>
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Version: 6.1CC: abaron, bazulay, iheim, srevivo, ykaul
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Description Brandon Perkins 2011-07-12 20:10:07 UTC 
Description of problem:
SELinux prevents vdsm/libvirt from executing qemu-kvm.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
vdsm-4.9-79.el6.x86_64
libvirt-0.8.7-18.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install RHEL Hypervisor.
2. Create a new server VM
3. Start said VM.
  
Actual results:
VM rhel6tmpl is down. Exit message internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: 15:53:39.111: 30730: info : libvirt version: 0.8.7, package: 18.el6 (Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>, 2011-04-18-10:28:30, x86-008.build.bos.redhat.com)
15:53:39.111: 30730: error : __virExec:676 : cannot execute binary /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm: Permission denied
libvir: error : cannot execute binary /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm: Permission denied
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Expected results:
VM rhel6tmpl was started by rhevm (Host: rhev-a16c-03.mpc.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com).
VM rhel6tmpl started on Host rhev-a16c-03.mpc.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com

Additional info:
Upon going from Enforcing to Permissive, the VM starts without problems.