[libvirt-users] Immutable backing files

[Gionatan Danti]

Il 03-09-2018 13:14 Gionatan Danti ha scritto:
> Hi list,
> suppose I have an immutable (ie: due to a read-only snapshot) backing 
> file.
> 
> After creating an overlay file with "qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o
> backing_file=/path/to/immutable/file.img current.qcow2", libvirt
> refuse to start the virtual machine and exits with an error stating
> "Could not open backing file /path/to/immutable/file.img: Permission
> denied".
> 
> From my understanding, libvirtd is trying to change the
> owner/permissions/selinux context of the backing file but, being it
> immutable, fails to start the VM. Is that the expected behavior?
> 
> Thanks.

Hi all, any suggestion on the matter?
Thanks.

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