Re: [libvirt-users] Immutable backing files

Il 03-09-2018 13:14 Gionatan Danti ha scritto: > Hi list, > suppose I have an immutable (ie: due to a read-only snapshot) backing > file. > > After creating an overlay file with "qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o > backing_file=/path/to/immutable/file.img current.qcow2", libvirt > refuse to start the virtual machine and exits with an error stating > "Could not open backing file /path/to/immutable/file.img: Permission > denied". > > From my understanding, libvirtd is trying to change the > owner/permissions/selinux context of the backing file but, being it > immutable, fails to start the VM. Is that the expected behavior? > > Thanks. Hi all, any suggestion on the matter?