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If a guest runs unconfined <seclabel type='none'>, but libvirtd is confined then the peer for signal can only be detected as 'unconfined'. That triggers issues like: apparmor="DENIED" operation="signal" profile="/usr/sbin/libvirtd" pid=22395 comm="libvirtd" requested_mask="send" denied_mask="send" signal=term peer="unconfined" To fix this add unconfined as an allowed peer for those operations. I discussed with the apparmor folks, right now there is no better separation to be made in this case. But there might be further down the road with "policy namespaces with scope and view control + stacking" This is more a use-case addition than a fix to the following two changes: - 3b1d19e6 AppArmor: add rules needed with additional mediation features - b482925c apparmor: support ptrace checks Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> Acked-by: Jamie Strandboge <jamie@canonical.com> Acked-by: intrigeri <intrigeri+libvirt@boum.org>
Libvirt API for virtualization
Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
For some of these hypervisors, it provides a stateful management daemon which runs on the virtualization host allowing access to the API both by non-privileged local users and remote users.
Layered packages provide bindings of the libvirt C API into other languages including Python, Perl, PHP, Go, Java, OCaml, as well as mappings into object systems such as GObject, CIM and SNMP.
Further information about the libvirt project can be found on the website:
License
The libvirt C API is distributed under the terms of GNU Lesser General
Public License, version 2.1 (or later). Some parts of the code that are
not part of the C library may have the more restrictive GNU General
Public License, version 2.1 (or later). See the files COPYING.LESSER
and COPYING for full license terms & conditions.
Installation
Libvirt uses the GNU Autotools build system, so in general can be built and installed with the usual commands. For example, to build in a manner that is suitable for installing as root, use:
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
$ make
$ sudo make install
While to build & install as an unprivileged user
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
$ make
$ make install
The libvirt code relies on a large number of 3rd party libraries. These will
be detected during execution of the configure script and a summary printed
which lists any missing (optional) dependencies.
Contributing
The libvirt project welcomes contributions in many ways. For most components the best way to contribute is to send patches to the primary development mailing list. Further guidance on this can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/contribute.html
Contact
The libvirt project has two primary mailing lists:
- libvirt-users@redhat.com (for user discussions)
- libvir-list@redhat.com (for development only)
Further details on contacting the project are available on the website: