Tiago Lam <[email protected]> writes: > When explaining on how to add vhost-user ports to a guest, using > libvirt, the following piece of configuration is used: > <disk type='dir' device='disk'> > <driver name='qemu' type='fat'/> > <source dir='/usr/src/dpdk-stable-17.11.1'/> > <target dev='vdb' bus='virtio'/> > <readonly/> > </disk> > > This is used to facilitate sharing of a DPDK directory between the host > and the guest. However, for this to work selinux also needs to be > configured (or disabled). Furthermore, if one is using Ubuntu, libvirtd > would need to be added to complain only in AppArmor. Instead, in [1] it > is advised to use wget to get the DPDK sources over the internet, which > avoids this differentiation. Thus, we drop this piece of configuration > here as well and keep the example configuration as simple as possible. > > This has been verified on both a Fedora 27 image and a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS > image. > > [1] > http://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/topics/dpdk/vhost-user/#dpdk-in-the-guest > > Signed-off-by: Tiago Lam <[email protected]> > --- > > CC'ed Stephen, > > I took the liberty of removing your TODO from here, as I read it to be related > to the (now removed) SELinux instruction below. If you think it should still > be > there let me know and I'll gladly send a v2.
I think it should remain until the selinux issues have been addressed. Is there a list somewhere of the AVC denials? Maybe it makes sense to allow them. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
