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virtual_image_context(5) SELinux configuration virtual_image_context(5)

virtual_image_context - The SELinux virtual machine image context configuration file

The virtual_image_context file contains a list of image contexts for use by the SELinux-aware virtualization API libvirt (see libvirtd(8)).

selinux_virtual_image_context_path(3) will return the active policy path to this file. The default virtual image context file is:

/etc/selinux/{SELINUXTYPE}/contexts/virtual_image_context

Where {SELINUXTYPE} is the entry from the selinux configuration file config (see selinux_config(5)).

Each line in the file consists of an entry as follows:

user:role:type[:range]

Where:

user role type range
A user, role, type and optional range (for MCS/MLS) separated by colons (:) that can be used as a virtual image context.

# ./contexts/virtual_image_context
system_u:object_r:svirt_image_t:s0
system_u:object_r:svirt_content_t:s0

selinux(8), libvirtd(8), selinux_virtual_image_context_path(3), selinux_config(5)

28-Nov-2011 Security Enhanced Linux