On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Negative wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Negative <negativebinomial at gmail.com>wrote: > >> I built a new VM under KVM today and I've been getting a slew of message >> that selinux is blocking virtmanager from reading the new image. This >> doesn't seem to be doing any harm, but I wanted to check whether I should >> simply run chcon on the image (if I can). >> >> Virtmanager show up as usr_t, as do my other vm images, but the new one is >> svirt_image_t. >> >> The selinux error says it denied a read access to virtmanager but that it >> is not expected that the access is required. >> >> I tried running restorecon as root, as suggested by the selinux error, but >> I'm getting a permission-denied error there. (It tries to set the context to >> usr_t) > > My bad. I had to shut down the vm and quit virtmanager before I could run > chcon. It's ok now. Thanks for answering your own question. It's actually better than not asking the question ;-) -- -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, info at dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]