Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add support for fd: protocol

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 02:48:23PM -0400, Corey Bryant wrote:
> sVirt provides SELinux MAC isolation for Qemu guest processes and their
> corresponding resources (image files). sVirt provides this support
> by labeling guests and resources with security labels that are stored
> in file system extended attributes. Some file systems, such as NFS, do
> not support the extended attribute security namespace, which is needed
> for image file isolation when using the sVirt SELinux security driver
> in libvirt.

This will also allow libvirt to run QEMU confined by the Linux
container functionality. In particular it lets us use CLONE_NEWNS
flag to isolate its root filesystem, without having to worry about
setting up passthrough mounts for each disk image it needs to
access, which is a real pain when it comes to hotplug.

Daniel
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