>From da1fc98ac230329a132de02f8019c0f024374459 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Jones <rjones@trick.home.annexia.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:40:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add documentation for SELinux configuration.

---
 guestfs.pod |   38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/guestfs.pod b/guestfs.pod
index 4d462f3..bc16ecb 100644
--- a/guestfs.pod
+++ b/guestfs.pod
@@ -316,6 +316,11 @@ Only supports Linux guests (not Windows, BSD, etc).
 Architecture limitations (eg. won't work for a PPC guest on
 an X86 host).
 
+=item *
+
+For SELinux guests, you may need to enable SELinux and load policy
+first.  See I<SELINUX> in this manpage.
+
 =back
 
 The two main API calls to run commands are C<guestfs_command> and
@@ -337,6 +342,39 @@ directory, plus additional information about each one.
 
 C<guestfs_find> can be used to recursively list files.
 
+=head2 SELINUX
+
+We support SELinux guests.  To ensure that labeling happens correctly
+in SELinux guests, you need to enable SELinux and load the guest's
+policy:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item 1.
+
+Before launching, do:
+
+ guestfs_set_selinux (g, 1);
+
+=item 2.
+
+After mounting the guest's filesystem(s), load the policy.  This
+is best done by running the L<load_policy(8)> command in the
+guest itself:
+
+ guestfs_sh (g, "/usr/sbin/load_policy");
+
+(Older versions of C<load_policy> require you to specify the
+name of the policy file).
+
+=back
+
+This will work for running commands and editing existing files.
+
+When new files are created, you may need to label them explicitly,
+for example by running the external command
+C<restorecon pathname>.
+
 =head1 HIGH-LEVEL API ACTIONS
 
 =head2 ABI GUARANTEE
-- 
1.6.2.5