[ovs-discuss] selinux and openvswitch

Ansis Atteka aatteka at nicira.com
Fri Oct 9 19:13:28 UTC 2015


On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Flavio Leitner <fbl at sysclose.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 01:56:05PM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
>> When I install openvswitch on RHEL-7 via RPM packages created from OVS
>> sources in github, the OVS service fails to start because it looks
>> like selinux prevents one from creating /etc/openvswitch.
>>
>> Are there people that install OVS with SELINUX? How do you make it work?
>
> Which spec did you use?
> I saw recently a patch in dev@ fixing the dire issue.


Guru, this patch
https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/f0dc83b762bd2645aef975ab01e33b8d69c68840
should address OVS installation issue when SElinux is in enforcing
mode.



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