[libvirt-users] Trouble with volume permissions

[Martin Kletzander]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:11:44AM -0500, Frank Laszlo wrote:
>I'm working on an integration that uses QCOW2 volumes with backing stores.
>I have qemu configured to run as the "qemu" user, which seems to be fine. I
>now need to make sure my volumes are readable by this user. However, it
>seems the volume being created is owned by root, instead of "qemu" as I'd
>expect it to be. I tried various things and was unable to get it to create
>the file as the correct user. I've supplied a link to the XML I'm using to
>create the volumes. If anyone has any ideas it would be massively helpful.
>

I'm not sure what you mean.  If I use your XML, the user is set to
107:107.  Are you sure qemu has uid 107 on your system?  Anyway, if you
have 'dynamic_ownership' set to '1' in the configuration, you don't need
to bother with that.  Libvirt will set all the labels automagically.

HTH,
Martin

>Thanks
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>Link to XML: http://pastebin.com/kbg9n6kW
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