[ovs-discuss] libvirt: error : cannot execute binary ovs-vsctl: Permission denied

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Tue Mar 26 16:07:41 UTC 2019


On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 07:36:48PM +0530, Harsh Gondaliya wrote:
> The system logs shows this error:
> 
> Mar 26 19:25:01 dpdk-OptiPlex-5040 libvirtd.service: 20423: error :
> virCommandWait:2553 : internal error: Child process (ovs-vsctl --timeout=5
> -- --if-exists del-port vnet0 -- add-port br0 vnet0 -- set Interface vnet0
> 'external-ids:attached-mac="52:54:00:90:c6:c3"' -- set Interface vnet0
> 'external-ids:iface-id="a9700eff-03a7-4c47-a112-429fc20677a2"' -- set
> Interface vnet0 'external-ids:vm-id="41b4eef0-b820-41da-9034-9de22e1379e0"'
> -- set Interface vnet0 external-ids:iface-status=active) unexpected exit
> status 126:
> 
> *libvirt:  error : cannot execute binary ovs-vsctl: Permission denied*

It sounds like your system is not set up so that libvirtd can actually
run ovs-vsctl.  You should investigate the reason.  Maybe SELinux is
involved.


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