Daniel J Walsh wrote:
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 09:44:15AM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 01:39:13PM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
Libvirt is executing qemu requiring it to execute pulseaudio which would require the folowing permissions,
#============= svirt_t ============== allow svirt_t admin_home_t:dir setattr; allow svirt_t admin_home_t:file { read write }; allow svirt_t pulseaudio_port_t:tcp_socket name_connect; allow svirt_t svirt_tmpfs_t:file read; allow svirt_t user_tmpfs_t:file read;
Since qemu(svirt_t) is not allowed these permissions, pulseaudio crashes and qemu dies. I don't see it crashing - when I run with a guest with a sound device attached, I see the AVC denials, and QEMU just carries on without a active sound backend AFAICT.
I believe you need to run without sound if you are running as root. We can't disable sound unconditonally for root, because not everyone will be using SELinux so its still valid to allow sound cards. I think the focus has to be on stopping QEMU from crashing. It might actually be an SDL bug, rather than a QEMU bug, because I believe its SDL that is responsible for opening the sound devices.
Daniel How about if we check if you are running with svirt then don't execute
On 03/13/2009 06:19 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: the code. Since I do not want to deal with these avc messages. Either they will happen always and I have to dontaudit them in which case a compromised svirt attacking the /root directory would be dontaudited, or people are going to see avc's all the time. For that scenario I think it'd be better to make virt-manager prevent addition of sound hardware, since its in a position to give feedback to the user telling them why sound devices aren't allowed.
Daniel Well there is no protocol currently to tell virt-manager that the
On 03/13/2009 09:49 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: libvirt is running with svirt. I tried to remove a audio device via virt-manager and it does nothing. Also what happens when virt-manager configures a remote libvirt? Does the sound card automatically get added?
What does 'does nothing' mean? We can't hotunplug a sound card, you will need to restart the VM for the changes to take effect. virt-manager out of the box does not add a sound card for remote VMs, only local. The default can be changed via Edit->Preferences. - Cole