Re: [Libguestfs] virt-copy-in - how do I get the selinux relabeling done for the file?

On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 02:15:44PM +0200, Yaniv Kaul wrote: > I'm copying a file into a VM using virt-copy-in - which is great, but the > file is wrongly labeled. > How can I fix that? Hi Yaniv, The easiest thing is to run this after doing the virt-copy-in: virt-customize -a disk.img --selinux-relabel which will run this code: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/ customize/SELinux_relabel.ml#L27 That requires an extra launch of the appliance, so if you were very concerned about doing this most efficiently then you could do something like this instead: guestfish -a disk.img -i <<EOF copy-in files [...] /target/dir selinux-relabel /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts / force:true EOF

That isn't quite the same as the virt-customize code above, and in particular it assumes that you're using the "targeted" policy and you don't have the buggy version of RHEL 6, but it's near enough for most purposes. If you want to do any better you'd need to write a custom script in Python or whatever. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~ rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top