Virt USB issues (doesn't work without customizing)

[Paul Lambert]

Lot's of blog material out there.  Trying to get ext. USB disk to map in 
Windows virt image.  Here is where I am.

1) I found a link to someone who did get external USB disks working with 
FE.11 Virt the issues that prevent this from working by just adding the 
hardware through the virt manager are:
 a) need selinux-policy-target-3.6.12-62.fcc11.noarch or later
 b) selinux blocks access to this device and must be customized.

2) OK, this should take that long.  (or should it?)
   a)  went to add/remove software through Gnome and did not find any 
pending updates for selinux.
   b) after searching for another hour found how to command line Yum for 
selinux updates.  Here's what I got.

[root@BRSINC-VC01 qemu]# rpm -qa | grep selinux
libselinux-utils-2.0.80-1.fc11.i586
libselinux-python-2.0.80-1.fc11.i586
selinux-policy-targeted-3.6.12-53.fc11.noarch
libselinux-2.0.80-1.fc11.i586
selinux-policy-3.6.12-53.fc11.noarch
[root@BRSINC-VC01 qemu]# yum -y upgrade selinux-policy-targeted
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates                                | 3.8 kB     00:00
updates/metalink                                         |  23 kB     00:01
Setting up Upgrade Process
No Packages marked for Update

Based on this  I would assume there are no updates even though others 
claim there are.  Where is 62 and why does it not show up in the Gnome 
software update tool?

[Gianluca Sforna]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Paul Lambert wrote:
> I found a link to someone who did get external USB disks working with
>
> FE.11 Virt the issues that prevent this from working by just adding the
> hardware through the virt manager are:
> a) need selinux-policy-target-3.6.12-62.fcc11.noarch or later
> b) selinux blocks access to this device and must be customized.

Search archive for the recent thres "USB passthrough", I guess it
would be of some help.
> Based on this  I would assume there are no updates even though others claim
> there are.  Where is 62 and why does it not show up in the Gnome software
> update tool?

That update was probably in "updates-testing" so you should have run
something like:

yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update selinux-policy-targeted

In the meantime it seems it got pushed to stable so you should be able
to find the package with a regular yum update (I'm downloading it
right now)