[libvirt-users] Ubuntu Trusty: failed to create VM due to permission denied

[Jianfeng Tang]

Agree. I did a little research. For those who hit this issue, it works
after I modified /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/libvirt-qemu to include the
backing store directory.

On 8/6/14 11:18 AM, "Eric Blake" <eblake at redhat.com> wrote:

>On 08/06/2014 10:02 AM, Jianfeng Tang wrote:
>> Thank you Eric. Yes, it looks like AppArmor caused the problem. I will
>> google on how to disable it.
>
>That feels wrong.  "My security process is preventing me from doing
>something wrong because I didn't configure it to match my usage
>patterns, so I'm going to disable security".  Rather, you should google
>for how to add additional storage pools to what AppArmor will allow, so
>that you can continue to have a secure setup.  (I feel the same way
>about people that complain that SELinux prevented them from doing
>something, so they disable SELinux instead of fixing their process to
>use SELinux correctly)
>
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