On Sunday, December 15, 2019 11:33:13 PM MST Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 12/15/19 8:17 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > > virt-manager can use your $HOME, without issue. You may run into issues > > if > > libvirtd doesn't have permission to enter your home dir though. Let me > > see > > what user that's running as. > > > > Oh. It runs as `root`. Yeah, it can access your home directory without > > issue. > > Actually, no it can't. qemu runs as the qemu user. Also, it can only > access files with the right selinux permissions. For example, if you > try to add an .iso file from your home directory, virt-manager will ask > you if it should change the permissions on the file. > The new permissions are: > -rw-r--r--. 1 qemu qemu system_u:object_r:virt_content_t:s0 > The odd thing is if you say no to the changing permission, you will find > that the file is now owned by root instead! Ah, I didn't check to see what the qemu processes were running as, only the libvirtd process. Good point. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
