SELinux - copying ISO file content

[Daniel J Walsh]

Jon Masters wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 22:34 +0200, Christian Iseli wrote:
>> On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:55:07 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
>>> Somebody else jumped on the thread and steered the conversation
>>> toward a virtualbox problem, which somewhat related to Jon's issue,
>>> it's not the same issue.
>> Right, mea culpa and sorry about that.  I thought my problem had the
>> same root as the OP's problem, but it now appears I was wrong...
> 
> :)
> 
> I occasionally bring up the SELinux issue because I'm trying to ask
> "what would a regular computer user think?", not whether I can solve the
> problem for myself with setting contexts or disabling the protection. 
> 
> And last night, I had a wonderful SELinux experience again, this time
> using Samba shares. None of the guests running within KVM were able to
> talk to Samba, so I wasted time pondering networking problems, etc.
> before I realized I rebooted since I setup the Samba shares. In the end,
> the usual process of mumbling sweet words about SELinux and turning it
> off was the response...and I remain convinced therefore that it is
> entirely appropriate to subject regular desktop users to SELinux.
> 
> Jon.
> 
> 
Not wanting to get into a argument what was the problem you were seeing?
 Were your virtual machines on a samba share?  And libvirt not able to
start the image because qemu was not allowed to read samba shares?