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Description of problem: When selinux is enforcing, update floppy disk on the fly with <readonly/> failed with error error: Failed to update device from floppy.xml error: internal error unable to execute QEMU command 'change': Could not open '/var/lib/libvirt/images/fd2.img' but when selinux is permissive, update-device will success Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.32-197.el6.x86_64 qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.192.el6.x86_64 libvirt-0.9.4-12.el6.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Make 2 floppy disk image file # dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/lib/libvirt/images/fd1.img count=1024 bs=1024 # mkfs.ext3 /var/lib/libvirt/images/fd1.img # dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/lib/libvirt/images/fd1.img count=1024 bs=1024 # mkfs.ext3 /var/lib/libvirt/images/fd2.img 2. Define a domain with floppy device connected with in config xml file <disk type='file' device='floppy'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/fd1.img'/> <target dev='fda' bus='fdc'/> <readonly/> </disk> 3. Start the domain 4. Prepare a xml as flollowing: # cat floppy.xml <disk type='file' device='floppy'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/fd2.img'/> <target dev='fda' bus='fdc'/> <readonly/> </disk> 5. Try to update the media int floppy device # virsh update-device rhel6 floppy.xml Actual results: error: Failed to update device from floppy.xml error: internal error unable to execute QEMU command 'change': Could not open '/var/lib/libvirt/images/fd2.img' Expected results: success with no error Additional info:
A user can work around this problem by making the floppy writable by removing the readonly element from the XML.