Re: Quantifying libvirt errors in launching the libguestfs appliance

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On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 04:25:14PM +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> For each of the kernels, libvirt labels them (with both DAC and selinux
> labels), then proceeds to launching qemu.  If this is done parallel, the
> race is pretty obvious.  Could you remind me why you couldn't use
> <seclabel model='none'/> or <seclabel relabel='no'/> or something that
> would mitigate this?

We value having sVirt :-)

However I'm just about to rerun the tests with <seclabel type='none'/>
to see if the problem goes away.  Will let you know tomorrow once they
have run again.

> If we cannot use this, then we need to implement
> the <seclabel/> element for kernel and initrd.

Right, that could work for us I think.

> >19 of the failures (4%) were of the form:
> >
> > process exited while connecting to monitor: fread() failed
> >
> >which I believe is a previously unknown bug.  I have filed it as
> >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1298122
> >
> 
> I think even this one might be the case, maybe selinux stops qemu from
> reading the kernel/initrd.
> 
> >Finally there was 1 failure:
> >
> > Unable to read from monitor: Connection reset by peer
> >
> >which I believe is also a new bug.  I have filed it as
> >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1298124
> >
> 
> This, I believe, means QEMU exited (as in the previous one), just at
> different point in time.

OK - let's see if they go away when we get the kernel
thing fixed.

Rich.

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