libvirt and SELlinux 'access denied' in a VM

[Juerg Haefliger]

Hi,

I started a VM using the official F20 cloud image, installed libvirt and
its dependencies and tried to create a guest but SELinux won't let me:

[root at fedora-20 ~]# virsh create mini.xml
error: Failed to create domain from mini.xml
error: Input/output error

[root at fedora-20 ~]# journalctl | tail
Mar 21 14:23:06 fedora-20 systemd[1]: SELinux policy denies access.
Mar 21 14:23:06 fedora-20 systemd-machined[7210]: Failed to start machine
scope: Access denied
Mar 21 14:23:06 fedora-20 libvirtd[6856]: Input/output error

[root at fedora-20 ~]# cat /var/log/libvirt/qemu/mini.log
2014-03-21 14:23:06.740+0000: starting up
LC_ALL=C PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -name mini -S -machine
pc-i440fx-1.6,accel=tcg,usb=off -m 1024 -realtime mlock=off -smp
1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid 11111111-2890-2015-1f87-cbfa725b1dd3
-nographic -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev
socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/mini.monitor,server,nowait
-mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc -no-shutdown
-device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -device
virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2
2014-03-21 14:23:06.744+0000: shutting down


type=VIRT_MACHINE_ID msg=audit(1395412399.728:281): pid=6856 uid=0
auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295
subj=system_u:system_r:virtd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='virt=qemu vm="mini"
uuid=11111111-2890-2015-1f87-cbfa725b1dd3
vm-ctx=system_u:system_r:svirt_tcg_t:s0:c728,c986
img-ctx=system_u:object_r:svirt_image_t:s0:c728,c986 model=selinux
exe="/usr/sbin/libvirtd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
type=VIRT_MACHINE_ID msg=audit(1395412399.728:282): pid=6856 uid=0
auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295
subj=system_u:system_r:virtd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='virt=qemu vm="mini"
uuid=11111111-2890-2015-1f87-cbfa725b1dd3 vm-ctx=107:107 img-ctx=107:107
model=dac exe="/usr/sbin/libvirtd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
type=USER_AVC msg=audit(1395412399.788:283): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295
ses=4294967295  subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='avc:  denied  { start
} for auid=-1 uid=-1 gid=-1 scontext=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 tclass=service
exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" sauid=0 hostname=? addr=? terminal=?'
type=VIRT_RESOURCE msg=audit(1395412400.015:284): pid=6856 uid=0
auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295
subj=system_u:system_r:virtd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='virt=qemu resrc=mem
reason=start vm="mini" uuid=11111111-2890-2015-1f87-cbfa725b1dd3 old-mem=0
new-mem=1048576 exe="/usr/sbin/libvirtd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=?
res=success'
type=VIRT_RESOURCE msg=audit(1395412400.015:285): pid=6856 uid=0
auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295
subj=system_u:system_r:virtd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='virt=qemu resrc=vcpu
reason=start vm="mini" uuid=11111111-2890-2015-1f87-cbfa725b1dd3 old-vcpu=0
new-vcpu=1 exe="/usr/sbin/libvirtd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=?
res=success'
type=VIRT_CONTROL msg=audit(1395412400.015:286): pid=6856 uid=0
auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295
subj=system_u:system_r:virtd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='virt=qemu op=start
reason=booted vm="mini" uuid=11111111-2890-2015-1f87-cbfa725b1dd3 vm-pid=-1
exe="/usr/sbin/libvirtd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=failed'

I'm not overly familiar with SELinux. Is this a configuration issue? Am I
missing some policy packages or could this be an issue with the cloud image?

Works fine when I disable SELinux.

Google found this, but it's old and apparently resolved:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860235

Thanks
...Juerg
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