FC13 Virt & Win XP guest

Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Tue Jun 15 14:18:09 UTC 2010


On Tuesday 15 June 2010 07:07 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>> I will try again when I have some time this weekend. This might also be
>> a valid bug as I got this SElinux error every time I started a VM in
>> virt manager.
>>
>>>
>>> Summary:
>>>
>>> SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/qemu-kvm "write" access on sr0.
>>>
>>
>> I am sorry my response is not very precise. I 'll look into this in more
>> detail when I have more time.
>>
>>>
>>> Ken
>>>
>>
>> GL resolving this
>
>  > SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/qemu-kvm "write" access on sr0.
>
> This is a well known bug being caused by qemu trying to check for write
> access on the cdrom even though it should know it is read only.  SELinux
> is not blocking any access and should not cause you virtual machine any
> problems in this case.

Thanks Daniel for the response and confirmation. I think the main 
problem has been tracked down to a libvirt bug and is being discussed on 
the fedora virt list. And the SELinux warning doesn't have anything to 
do with it.

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/virt/2010-June/002099.html

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Suvayu

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