[Fedora-xen] Disk image does not exist

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 11:56:18PM +0100, Jochen Wiedmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to create a new guest using virt-manager. I have verified
> that pae and hvm are present. xend and xendomains have been started.
> In virt-manager, I have entered the following data:
> 
>    Name: fc6-guest
>    Fully Virtualized
>    CD-ROM (FC6 DVD is in the drive)
>    Simple file, location /var/xen/win/data  (file exists with size of 5GB)
>    VM Max Memory = Startup Memory = 800MB, 1 CPU
> 
> However, when I try to finish, I receive the error message
> 
>    Error creating domain: Disk image does not exist: /var/xen/win/data'

The default SELinux policy on FC6 only labels  /xen with neccesary
context to allow XenD access to the disk. So if you want to store
your images under /var/xen then you need to either symlink this to
/xen, or better add your path to the policy, eg

 # semanage fcontext -a -f "" -t xen_image_t '/var/xen(/.*)?'
 # restorecon -R /var/xen

Regards,
Dan.
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