[libvirt] [PATCH] Let virt-manager 1.4.0+ work to access console of VM

[Guido Günther]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 05:11:53PM -0500, Bryan Quigley wrote:
> Hi Guido,
> 
> It's only needed when a user actually clicks on the running VM in
> virt-manager.  It's not defined differently in the domain xml.
> 
> I'm thinking that means virt-aa-helper can't help us in this case, but
> am open to being proven wrong.

The fd is passed over the existing socket, no new socket is created to
the qemu process, so yes virt-aa-helper won't help here. Sorry for the
noise.
 -- Guido

> 
> Thanks!
> Bryan
> 
> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 1:04 AM, Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 01:48:31PM -0500, Bryan Quigley wrote:
> >> Also see Ubuntu bug
> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/1668681
> >> First reported https://askubuntu.com/questions/833964/virt-manager-cant-connect-to-graphical-console/888220#888220
> >>
> >> ---
> >>  examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu | 3 +++
> >>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu b/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu
> >> index a9020aa..19d99e5 100644
> >> --- a/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu
> >> +++ b/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu
> >> @@ -151,3 +151,6 @@
> >>    /etc/udev/udev.conf r,
> >>    /sys/bus/ r,
> >>    /sys/class/ r,
> >> +
> >> +  # allow connect with openGraphicsFD to work
> >> +  unix (send, receive) type=stream peer=(label=/usr/sbin/libvirtd),
> >
> > Shouldn't this only be added via virt-aa-helper when a corresponding
> > console is in use?
> > Cheers,
> >  -- Guido
> 
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