vfio devices are generated on the fly, but the generic base is missing. The base vfio has not much functionality but to provide a custom container by opening this path. See https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vfio.txt for more. Current access by qemu is "wr": [ 2652.756712] audit: type=1400 audit(1491303691.719:25): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" profile="libvirt-17a61b87-5132-497c-b928-421ac2ee0c8a" name="/dev/vfio/vfio" pid=8486 comm="qemu-system-x86" requested_mask="wr" denied_mask="wr" fsuid=64055 ouid=0 Bug-Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1678322 Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu b/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu index 5d811f9..eb4d58c 100644 --- a/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu +++ b/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu @@ -212,3 +212,6 @@ # silence refusals to open lttng files (see LP: #1432644) deny /dev/shm/lttng-ust-wait-* r, deny /run/shm/lttng-ust-wait-* r, + + # for vfio (LP: #1678322) + /dev/vfio/vfio rw, -- 2.7.4 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list