Thanks for reporting this bug. Can you show the xml for the libvirt managed nfs storage and for the VM?
The virt-aa-helper policy has # needed for when disk is on a network filesystem network inet, Which I suspect should prevent this from happening, so I will target this at apparmor. ** Also affects: apparmor (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apparmor in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1511830 Title: apparmor denies VM startup when image is network mounted Status in apparmor package in Ubuntu: New Status in libvirt package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: If I attempt to start a VM with one of its disk images on a libvirt managed NFS mount, it fails: Oct 30 15:30:56 athens kernel: [545232.917662] audit: type=1400 audit(1446233456.718:81): apparmor="DENIED" operation="sendmsg" profile="/usr/lib/libvirt/virt-aa-helper" pid=13760 comm="virt-aa- helper" laddr=fd60:e0:a0f4:121::8 lport=757 faddr=fd60:e0:a0f4:121::4 fport=2049 family="inet6" sock_type="stream" protocol=6 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apparmor/+bug/1511830/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp