[virt-tools-list] SELinux and svirt

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Wed Mar 31 20:05:32 UTC 2010


On 03/29/2010 02:33 PM, JoHann wrote:
> I've been scouring the web to try and find directions on how to
> configure this on RHEL 5.4 using virt-tools, qemu and KVM.
> 
> Is there a how-to some where I'm missing?
> 
> The libvirt website describes setting up a security configuration in
> qemu.conf, though it doesn't go into details on how to configure basic
> vs confined.
> 
> I'm also not setting any settings in virt-manager on how to assign a
> SELinux label to new VMs. My use case dictates that I can't
> auto-assign the labels, though I'm not sure where that setting is
> anyways.
> 

There is no svirt in RHEL5, you would need to use newer versions of
libvirt at the very least, but the selinux policy bits aren't there
either. Unforunately if there are writeups already available from other
users, you are on your own.

- Cole





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