Re: [libvirt-users] Stop the relabeling of CD images

On 08/19/2013 01:51 PM, Cristian Ciupitu wrote: Caveat - this is not something I have tried myself, so try it out, and feel free to post back if it works or doesn't work for your case. Hmm, the documentation at http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#seclabel is a bit stale; the last paragraph mentions that you can apply per-<disk> seclabel overrides, but fails to mention that model='...' is valid in that XML. Since you already know what label you want, it might be worth trying to force that particular label instead of requesting no relabel, as in: <source file=...> <seclabel model='selinux' relabel='yes'> <label>system_u:object_r:public_content_t:s0</label> </seclabel> </source> so that might get libvirt to stop doing the SELinux relabel dance on your .iso file. Then again, I'm not sure if that will prevent libvirt from trying to "un-label" the device when your guest shuts down. Then there's the question of the chown, which is caused by the DAC driver rather than the SELinux driver. So maybe this would do it: <source file=...> <seclabel model='selinux' relabel='no'/> <seclabel model='dac' relabel='no'/> </source> I wouldn't be surprised if we need to patch our docs to be more clear about this. I also know that there has been talk of a patch for teaching libvirt how to restore labels to their original state, instead of the current problem of "restoring" labels to a single default setting (even where that does not match the original setting). I'm also not sure why you think to resort to chattr +i, but if using that causes libvirt heartburn, maybe we have a bug to fix to be more tolerant of failed label attempts due to chattr. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org