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Description of problem: SELinux prevents remote-viewer connection to Virtual machine provisioned by Ovirt Management. AVC: type=AVC msg=audit(1339600810.583:314): avc: denied { name_connect } for pid=2546 comm="remote-viewer" dest=5911 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:mozilla_plugin_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:vnc_port_t:s0 tclass=tcp_socket Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): virt-viewer-0.5.3-1.fc17 spice-xpi-2.7-1.fc17 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log in to RHEVM/Ovirt User portal in Firefox (management web frontend of RHEVM/Ovirt - virtualization managers, spice-xpi plugin needs to be installed. 2. Click on Spice console button to connect to any VM provisioned by RHEVM/Ovirt with using remote-viewer client (binary included in virt-viewer package). Actual results: AVC, SELinux prevents remote-viewer connection. Expected results: No AVC, successful cnenction in enforcing mode. Additional info: since it's not esay to get setup, I am willing to provide any more info. WORKAROUND: Switch to permissive mode
Looks like we already have a fix for this in, Fixed in selinux-policy-3.10.0-130.fc17
selinux-policy-3.10.0-132.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/selinux-policy-3.10.0-132.fc17
selinux-policy-3.10.0-132.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.