I am getting 'system_u:object_r:svirt_image_t:s0:c129,c783' on '/var/lib/libvirt/images/vm01.img': Permission denied' when I try to install using virt-manager. #semanage fcontext -l | grep images /var/lib/libvirt/images(/.*)? all files system_u:object_r:svirt_image_t:s0 /var/lib/tftpboot/images(/.*)? all files system_u:object_r:cobbler_var_lib_t:s0 /var/lib/xen/images(/.*)? all files system_u:object_r:xen_image_t:s0 /var/www/cobbler/images(/.*)? all files system_u:object_r:cobbler_var_lib_t:s0 and #ls -aZ drwxr-xr-x. root root unconfined_u:object_r:virt_var_lib_t:s0 . drwxr-xr-x. root root system_u:object_r:virt_var_lib_t:s0 .. -rw-------. root root system_u:object_r:svirt_image_t:s0 vm01.img Installation fails with following error message : Unable to complete install: 'unable to set security context 'system_u:object_r:svirt_image_t:s0:c129,c783' on '/var/lib/libvirt/images/vm01.img': Permission denied' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 44, in cb_wrapper callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 1902, in do_install guest.start_install(False, meter=meter) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 1224, in start_install noboot) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 1292, in _create_guest dom = self.conn.createLinux(start_xml or final_xml, 0) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1277, in createLinux if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self) libvirtError: unable to set security context 'system_u:object_r:svirt_image_t:s0:c129,c783' on '/var/lib/libvirt/images/vm01.img': Permission denied also, [/usr/libexec]#which qemu-kvm /usr/bin/qemu-kvm [/usr/libexec]#ls -aZ /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -rwxr-xr-x. root root unconfined_u:object_r:qemu_exec_t:s0 /usr/bin/qemu-kvm [/usr/libexec]#which libvirtd /usr/local/sbin/libvirtd [/usr/libexec]#ls -aZ /usr/local/sbin/libvirtd -rwxr-xr-x. root root system_u:object_r:bin_t:s0 /usr/local/sbin/libvirtd Please help me as to where I am going wrong.. Regards, Onkar