Hi,All

I've solve this problem by doing a chcon --reference=/var/lib/libvirt/images /vm

this solve selinux block kvm from accessing disk image outside of /var/lib/libvirt/images

Thanks

2009-12-09

rewing

发件人： centos-virt-request 发送时间： 2009-12-09 00:57:19 收件人： centos-virt 抄送： 主题： CentOS-virt Digest, Vol 28, Issue 9

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libvirtError: internal error unable to start guest: qemu: could not open disk image /vm/win2k3.img

Do you have selinux enabled ? As far as I know the location for images is restricted to /var/lib/libvirt/images by default.