* Link Dupont (link@sub-pop.net) wrote:
Adding the <binary xattr='on'> element to the <filesystem> device does seem to spawn virtiofsd with the option string "source=/home,xattr". My guest can no longer mount the device though.
It errors with:
[ 170.225553] 9pnet_virtio: no channels available mount: mount(2) failed: No such file or directory
I think what this is doing is causing libvirt to create the device as a virtiofs device instead of a 9p device. The EL7 kernel doesn't have a virtiofs driver, so it can't mount virtiofs devices.
My knowledge is unfortunately limited about the nuances between 9p and virtiofs. So I'm mostly experimenting by trial-and-error here.
They're almost entirely different implementations; if you have a virtiofsd then you're running virtiofs, not 9p, and yes RHEL7 won't like that. (I'm not sure el7 had 9p either??) Dave
On Wed, Jun 2 2021 at 03:55:40 PM -0500, Connor Kuehl <ckuehl@redhat.com> wrote:
On 5/21/21 11:59 AM, Link Dupont wrote:
Adding the virtio-fs mailing list.
I am mounting a filesystem into a domain using the virtiofs driver.
<filesystem accessmode="passthrough" type="mount"> <source dir="/home"/> <target dir="/home"/> <driver type="virtiofs"/> </filesystem>
Both my host (Fedora 34) and guest (CentOS 8.4) are running with SELinux enforcing. From my host, I can see that the SELinux context type is set to user_home_dir_t.
$ ls -ldZ /home/link drwxr-xr-x. 61 link link system_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t:s0 8192 May 21 12:41 /home/link
From within the guest however, the volume is unlabeled_t
$ ls -lZd /home/link drwxr-xr-x. 61 link link system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 8192 May 21 12:53 / home/link
Is there a way to pass the SELinux context through to the guest? Or mount the volume with the correct options to map SELinux contexts?
Hi,
I'm afraid I actually don't know that much about SELinux but I read that it relies on using extended attributes in the file system to accomplish its labeling.
Do you still experience this issue when you enable extended attribute support[1] in virtiofsd? The example in the optional parameters snippet enables extended attributes with the xattr='on' element.
Connor
[1] https://libvirt.org/kbase/virtiofs.html#optional-parameters
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