[Libguestfs] [PATCH 4/7] launch: libvirt: Allow the SELinux label to be set on qcow2 overlay files.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 02:24:30PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 02:14:42PM +0000, Matthew Booth wrote:
> > Relabelling the appliance could get complicated wrt multiple
> > appliances running simultaneously.
> 
> Right -- I suspect this is buggy actually, but it's quite hard to test
> it since I need to run up lots of guests and run virt-df in parallel
> on them.  Also we put <shareable/> on the appliance disk, and I'm not
> sure what libvirt does in that case.

I spun up a few libvirt guests and surprisingly this all seems to
work.  I have no idea why :-)  I agree with you that it shouldn't work
because the labels should get stomped on by the different connections,
but it seems libvirt is being cleverer somehow.

Rich.

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