On Tue, 2017-11-21 at 13:04 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 11/21/2017 12:31 PM, Cole Robinson wrote: > > On 11/14/2017 05:31 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On trying to fire up a VM using virt-manager, I get "unable to map > > > backing store for guest RAM: Permission denied". > > > > > > I use hugepages to lock down memory for the VM, which may be relevant > > > for the error. This worked correctly on F26 just before the upgrade to > > > F27. I have changed nothing in my VM configuration, nor in the config > > > file for QEMU. However, temporarily turning off SElinux allows the > > > startup to proceed, after which I can re-enable SElinux with no ill > > > effects, i.e. the VM runs correctly. > > > > > > A complete relabel of my system (touch /.autolabel and reboot) has made > > > no difference. > > > > > > > If you're still hitting this, please file a libvirt bug and we can > > follow up from there, certainly sounds like something weird is going on > > I doubt it's a file context issue so a relabel wouldn't help. It's more > of a kernel thing. It's probably controllable via one of the SELinux > virt_* booleans. An AVC denial message would sure help to sort it out.
See my reply to Cole. The BZ report has all the information I can find. Other than refiling it against libvirtd rather than SElinux I don't know what else I can do. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
