[CentOS] SELinux and KVM
James B. Byrne
byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca
Mon Nov 9 19:30:21 UTC 2009
On Mon, November 9, 2009 10:44, James B. Byrne wrote:
> I'm not running KVM (but Xen). From the snippets above I deduce:
>
> - qemu is not part of CentOS, you probably got it from rpmforge.
> - that means you do not need qemu for KVM usage
> - SELinux cannot know about it
> - there's probably a different preferred way to use KVM on CentOS
Odd then, do you not think, that when I install virt-manager yum
requires qemu from the extras repository and does not require
kvm-qemu-img. Odder still that yum seems not to know anything about
kvm-qemu-img.
# yum whatprovides */kvm-qemu-img
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* addons: centos.mirror.iweb.ca
* base: centos.mirror.iweb.ca
* extras: centos.mirror.iweb.ca
* updates: centos.mirror.iweb.ca
No Matches found
# yum install virt-manager
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* addons: mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
* base: mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
* extras: mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
* updates: mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package virt-manager.x86_64 0:0.6.1-8.el5 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libvirt-python >= 0.3.3 for package:
virt-manager
--> Processing Dependency: python-virtinst >= 0.400.3 for package:
virt-manager
--> Running transaction check
---> Package libvirt-python.x86_64 0:0.6.3-20.1.el5_4 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libvirt.so.0(LIBVIRT_0.1.0)(64bit) for
package: libvirt-python
--> Processing Dependency: libvirt.so.0(LIBVIRT_0.6.1)(64bit) for
package: libvirt-python
--> Processing Dependency: libvirt.so.0(LIBVIRT_0.1.9)(64bit) for
package: libvirt-python
--> Processing Dependency: libvirt.so.0(LIBVIRT_0.1.1)(64bit) for
package: libvirt-python
--> Processing Dependency: libvirt.so.0(LIBVIRT_0.6.3)(64bit) for
package: libvirt-python
--> Processing Dependency: libvirt.so.0(LIBVIRT_0.2.0)(64bit) for
package: libvirt-python
--> Processing Dependency: libvirt.so.0(LIBVIRT_0.5.0)(64bit) for
package: libvirt-python
--> Processing Dependency: libvirt.so.0(LIBVIRT_0.4.1)(64bit) for
package: libvirt-python
--> Processing Dependency: libvirt.so.0(LIBVIRT_0.1.4)(64bit) for
package: libvirt-python
--> Processing Dependency: libvirt.so.0(LIBVIRT_0.2.3)(64bit) for
package: libvirt-python
--> Processing Dependency: libvirt.so.0(LIBVIRT_0.3.0)(64bit) for
package: libvirt-python
--> Processing Dependency: libvirt.so.0(LIBVIRT_0.1.5)(64bit) for
package: libvirt-python
--> Processing Dependency: libvirt.so.0(LIBVIRT_0.4.0)(64bit) for
package: libvirt-python
--> Processing Dependency: libvirt.so.0(LIBVIRT_0.0.3)(64bit) for
package: libvirt-python
--> Processing Dependency: libvirt.so.0(LIBVIRT_0.6.0)(64bit) for
package: libvirt-python
--> Processing Dependency: libvirt.so.0(LIBVIRT_0.3.3)(64bit) for
package: libvirt-python
--> Processing Dependency: libvirt.so.0(LIBVIRT_0.2.1)(64bit) for
package: libvirt-python
--> Processing Dependency: libvirt.so.0(LIBVIRT_0.0.5)(64bit) for
package: libvirt-python
--> Processing Dependency: libvirt.so.0(LIBVIRT_0.4.5)(64bit) for
package: libvirt-python
--> Processing Dependency: libvirt.so.0(LIBVIRT_0.3.2)(64bit) for
package: libvirt-python
--> Processing Dependency: libvirt.so.0()(64bit) for package:
libvirt-python
---> Package python-virtinst.noarch 0:0.400.3-5.el5 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
---> Package libvirt.x86_64 0:0.6.3-20.1.el5_4 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: /usr/bin/qemu-img for package: libvirt
--> Running transaction check
---> Package qemu.x86_64 0:0.9.0-4 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
================================================================================
Package Arch Version
Repository Size
================================================================================
Installing:
virt-manager x86_64 0.6.1-8.el5 base
1.5 M
Installing for dependencies:
libvirt x86_64 0.6.3-20.1.el5_4 updates
2.0 M
libvirt-python x86_64 0.6.3-20.1.el5_4 updates
133 k
python-virtinst noarch 0.400.3-5.el5 base
378 k
qemu x86_64 0.9.0-4 extras
4.5 M
Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install 5 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
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