From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Bug 1192780 <1192780@bugs.launchpad.net>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1192780] [NEW] qemu-kvm with snapshot option always fails with Permission denied Could not open disk image
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 09:46:03 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51F1483B.7000900@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130620024232.3801.5553.malonedeb@soybean.canonical.com>
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On 06/19/2013 08:42 PM, Sam Stoelinga wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> I'm trying to use the option: -snapshot write to temporary files
> instead of disk image files
>
>
> libvirt.xml that I'm using:
> <domain type="qemu" xmlns:qemu='http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0'>
> <qemu:commandline>
> <qemu:arg value='-snapshot'/>
> </qemu:commandline>
> </domain>
This is unsupported usage of libvirt, and not a qemu bug. You'd need to
take this up with the libvirt list to get libvirt to properly support
temporary disk images without needing <qemu:commandline>, and so that
libvirt is properly setting SELinux permissions on the temporary file.
--
Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-25 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-20 2:42 [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1192780] [NEW] qemu-kvm with snapshot option always fails with Permission denied Could not open disk image Sam Stoelinga
2013-07-25 15:46 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2013-07-25 16:09 ` [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1192780] " Deepak C Shetty
2013-07-25 16:32 ` Eric Blake
2013-07-25 16:45 ` Eric Blake
2013-07-26 4:55 ` Deepak C Shetty
2017-07-20 12:00 ` Thomas Huth
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