Request to re-add option to disable SELinux

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Jul 3 18:12:21 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 02:05:00PM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> 
> The other problem you talked about is virtmanager also not that likely
> to be run by your standard desktop user.  We are working with the virt
> team to make this simpler.  libvirtd is not unconfined and running qemu
> as a user is unconfined.  Running qemu from libvirtd is still confined
> and is fixed by correct labeling.  Hopefully the virt-manager people
> will assign an appropriate context at creation time, and/or default
> virtual machines to /var/lib/libvirt/images where they will be labeled
> correctly automatically.

An update to F9 post GA set the default location to this directory.

For F10 we hope to fix the problem permanently by making use of libvirt's
new storage management capabilities for manipulating disks / files which
will ensure the correct context is always set.

Daniel
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