On RHEL6, After installing via livecd with selinux in permissive mode, start a Windows 7 KVM guest receive error: internal error cannot parse sensitivity level in s01
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.4
- qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.351.el6.alon.bz876982.v1.x86_64
- libvirt-0.10.2-15.el6.x86_64
- kernel-2.6.32-353.el6.x86_64
- Windows 7
Issue
- After installing via livecd with selinux in permissive mode, start a Windows 7 KVM guest receive error:
internal error cannot parse sensitivity level in s0
Resolution
- The resolution is being tracked in Red Hat Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=896610
- The current recomment workaround is to not run a livecd with selinux set in in permissive mode.
Root Cause
This seems to be the commit where the enforcing-test originates:
commit e98a30558acc58275ee2c4469e3c4f8bea9b566f
Author: Warren Togami <wtogami@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Feb 20 14:39:47 2008 -0500
selinux --disabled fixes
[...]
def selinux_enabled(ks):
- return ks.handler.selinux.selinux
+ return ks.handler.selinux.selinux == ksconstants.SELINUX_ENFORCING
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