NETNS support requires a kernel patch (or at least, last time I looked). The kernel for this system doesn't have the proper support. This test needs to SKIP if LXC_netns_support is set to False.
The value of LXC_netns_support is set to false by default in the const.py. But, I guess this is not the appropriate way for verifying the NETNS support. Can you help me with the steps for automating the verification of the NETNS support in the kernel ? I shall update the tc to be skipped as of now for LXC by verifying the LXC_netns_support variable, we can update the tc to call appropriate function that verifies the NETNS support once it is in the test suite.
Is checking for CONFIG_NET_NS=y in the .config file of the kernel, sufficient for verifying the NETNS support ?
You can't guarantee that the running kernel was built with a given config. There's a kernel flag that you can enable to store the kernel config in /proc/config.gz, but kernels aren't often built with this flag set. libvirt checks the output of "ip --help". If netns is listed, then both ip and the kernel have NETNS support. You could do a similar check in const.py Thanks! -- Kaitlin Rupert IBM Linux Technology Center kaitlin@linux.vnet.ibm.com