SELinux - copying ISO file content

[Daniel J Walsh]

Christian Iseli wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:05:00 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>> I don't know what vmshared is> It is beling labeled as a unlabeled_t
>> which means the kernel policy does not know what this file system is.
> 
> Yes, vmshared is a special filesystem provided by the VirtualBox.  It
> gets compiled and installed as a kernel module when you install the
> VirtualBox tools on the client machine.  It allows one folder/directory
> of the host machine to be seen as a filesystem on the client, allowing
> file sharing.
> 
>> If you run restorecon -R -v ~/
>>
>> Does it change the context on this file system?
> 
> No
> 
> I tried mounting it under /mnt, but the results are the same.  I did
> not try to mount it through dolphin or other GUI.  I have no idea what
> the GUI does that a simple command-line mount does not.
> 
> Cheers,
> 					Christian
> 
I think if you mount it with a context option it would work.

mount -o context="system_u:object_r:vmblock:s0"  -t vboxsf VMShared /mnt

Does this fix it?