[libvirt] None seclabel question

Jiri Denemark jdenemar at redhat.com
Tue Sep 4 12:13:58 UTC 2012


On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 12:50:55 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> When I think of upgrade issues, i consider the scenario where the new
> libvirt is configured in the same way as the old livirt, and we need
> to make sure the guest behaviour remains the same. This scenario you
> describe obviously doesn't fall under that, since you're enabling new
> behaviour that was not previously possible. I so don't think that is
> an upgrade problem, but rather just a case of defining what the new
> behaviour should be.
> 
> IMHO, the behaviour is thus
> 
>  - A single <seclabel> with no model=XXX attribute, refers to the first
>    security driver
>  - Multiple <seclabel> with explicit model=XXX attributes refer to the
>    corresponding driver
>  - Multiple <seclabel> with no model=XX -> forbidden config
> 
> If you want to set behaviour for the secondary, or tertiary security
> drivers then you are required to provide multiple <seclabel> elements
> with explicit model=XXXX attributes. We shouldn't try to abuse a single
> <seclabel> element to set properties against multiple security drivers.

Fair enough and works for me :-) We ended up with a clearly defined behavior,
which is worth including in formatdomain.html

Jirka




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