Why are KVM guests failing to boot with XML errors?
Issue
- Virtual machine fail to run with following error message:
[root@xyz qemu]# virsh start abc
error: Failed to start domain abc
error: XML error: missing security model when using multiple labels.
- From
libvirtd.log;
2013-10-22 15:59:30.373+0000: 19222: error : qemuAutostartDomain:276 : Failed to autostart VM 'abc': XML error: missing security model when using multiple labels
virt-managerlogs:
Tue, 22 Oct 2013 19:58:26 virt-manager 14476] DEBUG (error:80) dialog message: Error restoring domain: XML error: missing security model when using multiple labels : Error restoring domain: XML error: missing security model when using multiple labels
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 44, in cb_wrapper
callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 65, in tmpcb
callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 1063, in startup
self._backend.create()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 678, in create
if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self)
libvirtError: XML error: missing security model when using multiple labels
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
- SElinux in
permissivemode
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