[libvirt-users] Getting "Unable to set XATTR" on libvirt 5.6.0 inside containers

[Michal Privoznik]

On 11/21/19 3:08 PM, Roman Mohr wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are updating KubeVirt to libvirt 5.6.0. Before that we were running 
> on 5.0.0. It seems like something regarding setting xattrs on files has 
> changed, because with libvirt 5.6.0 we are getting the following error:
> 
> ```
> Unable to set XATTR trusted.libvirt.security.dac on 
> /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-410-default_vmi-fedora: Operation not 
> permitted')
> ```
> 
> The main problem is for us is that container filesystems don't 
> necessarily support setting xattrs.
> 
> My questions would therfore be:
> 
>   * Does anyone know what has changed, and why?
>   * Can it be disabled?
> 

I've seen the bug you filled so I'll continue discussion there so that 
we don't have two places where we discuss this issue.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1774373

Michal