[Fedora-xen] Re: DomU boot on Fedora 6 fails with 'no root found' error.

[Bill Davidsen]

K T Ligesh wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 01:40:58PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>   
>> And at some point will xen and selinux be compatible? I have everything 
>> in the "right" place, but it still doesn't work.
>>
>>     
>
>  Forget selinux. Just disable it. I mean, you think of security only after the bleeding stops, your wounds have healed. (The bleeding that comes from banging your head on the keyboard in frustration). Since this is xen only mailinglist, I think we can talk about the situation with selinux disabled. 
>   
I bet you have the same eye-level bloody dent in your wall that I do ;-)
>  Anyway, won't a setenforce 0, completely disable the damn thing? At least it says so as the output of the command.

That's true, but I regard "turn off security" in the same light as "run 
setuid root so you bypass all that permissions stuff." And at least some 
of the places I could use this require selinux. setenforce doesn't 
disable it, just sets it advisory, which means it still fails and tells 
you there's no such file as <whatever> when there is, just where it 
should be. Daniel keeps telling me it works for him, so it's some 
failure of understanding.

I'll write a detailed post later with exactly my xen experiences, right 
now I have to test and evaluate kvm for someone. I will test with 
selinux if it works without. There isn't a kvm list yet, but I won't 
burden this list with off-topic posts.

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bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979