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Bug 1211272
| Summary: | libvirt cannot create guests: Failed to bind socket: Permission denied | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Reporter: | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones> | ||||
| Component: | libvirt | Assignee: | Libvirt Maintainers <libvirt-maint> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs> | ||||
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||
| Version: | 7.1 | CC: | rbalakri | ||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||||||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||||||
| Last Closed: | 2015-04-13 13:35:31 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||
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| Bug Depends On: | |||||||
| Bug Blocks: | 910269 | ||||||
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It turns out this is caused by NFS. The fix is:
# setsebool -P virt_use_nfs on
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time->Mon Apr 13 09:32:34 2015
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1428931954.098:1544): arch=c000003e syscall=49 success=no exit=-13 a0=7 a1=7ffff02d5930 a2=6e a3=46 items=0 ppid=1 pid=24979 auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 euid=1000 suid=1000 fsuid=1000 egid=1000 sgid=1000 fsgid=1000 tty=(none) ses=45 comm="qemu-kvm" exe="/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:svirt_t:s0:c608,c754 key=(null)
type=AVC msg=audit(1428931954.098:1544): avc: denied { write } for pid=24979 comm="qemu-kvm" name="lib" dev="0:36" ino=4195019 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:svirt_t:s0:c608,c754 tcontext=system_u:object_r:nfs_t:s0 tclass=dir
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Created attachment 1013965 [details] Full log from libguestfs-test-tool Description of problem: Run libguestfs-test-tool in RHEL 7.1: [...] libguestfs: [00233ms] launch libvirt guest libguestfs: error: could not create appliance through libvirt. Try running qemu directly without libvirt using this environment variable: export LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND=direct Original error from libvirt: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2015-04-13T13:26:26.646024Z qemu-kvm: -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/home/rjones/.config/libvirt/qemu/lib/guestfs-x1ifcqgcqf6qh3q2.monitor,server,nowait: Failed to bind socket: Permission denied 2015-04-13T13:26:26.646144Z qemu-kvm: -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/home/rjones/.config/libvirt/qemu/lib/guestfs-x1ifcqgcqf6qh3q2.monitor,server,nowait: chardev: opening backend "socket" failed [code=1 domain=10] libguestfs-test-tool: failed to launch appliance The full output is attached. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libvirt-client-1.2.8-16.el7.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-1.2.8-16.el7.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-interface-1.2.8-16.el7.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-network-1.2.8-16.el7.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev-1.2.8-16.el7.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-1.2.8-16.el7.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-1.2.8-16.el7.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-secret-1.2.8-16.el7.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-1.2.8-16.el7.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-kvm-1.2.8-16.el7.x86_64 libvirt-devel-1.2.8-16.el7.x86_64 libvirt-docs-1.2.8-16.el7.x86_64 ipxe-roms-qemu-20130517-6.gitc4bce43.el7.noarch libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-1.2.8-16.el7.x86_64 qemu-img-1.5.3-86.el7.x86_64 qemu-kvm-1.5.3-86.el7.x86_64 qemu-kvm-common-1.5.3-86.el7.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RHEL 7.1. 2. Run libguestfs-test-tool, virt-builder, etc.