Hi Alex, I noticed you did lots of work about lxc-enter-namespace function. There is one thing really confusing me and I really want to consult with you about it. When I execute lxc-enter-namespace to get disk space info for lxc container under different libvirt version, It return different execution results. Details are as following: Under libvirt of version 1.0.2 with unbuntu host OS: # disk space info of Host ubuntu@lxc-gq:~$ df -hl Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/loop7 20G 16G 3.2G 84% / udev 2.0G 12K 2.0G 1% /dev tmpfs 791M 300K 791M 1% /run none 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /run/shm tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/nbd5 93M 1.6M 87M 2% /home/ubuntu/test ubuntu@lxc-gq:~$ vir version Compiled against library: libvirt 1.0.2 Using library: libvirt 1.0.2 Using API: LXC 1.0.2 Running hypervisor: LXC 3.8.0 ubuntu@lxc-gq:~$ vir list Id Name State ---------------------------------------------------- 3241 instance-0000004b running # disk space info of instance ubuntu@lxc-gq:~$ vir lxc-enter-namespace 3241 /bin/df -hl Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/nbd1 1.4G 956M 329M 75% / devfs 64K 8.0K 56K 13% /dev tmpfs 64K 0 64K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup none 396M 12M 384M 3% /run none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /run/shm Then I logged into the lxc container : ubuntu@lxc-gq:~$ ssh -i id_rsa_lxc ubuntu@10.0.0.4 Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.8.0-25-generic x86_64) * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/ System information disabled due to load higher than 2.0 Get cloud support with Ubuntu Advantage Cloud Guest: http://www.ubuntu.com/business/services/cloud Use Juju to deploy your cloud instances and workloads: https://juju.ubuntu.com/#cloud-precise 0 packages can be updated. 0 updates are security updates. Last login: Thu Aug 8 07:30:04 2013 from 10.0.0.1 To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>". See "man sudo_root" for details. ubuntu@lxc3:~$ df -hl Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/nbd1 1.4G 956M 328M 75% / devfs 64K 8.0K 56K 13% /dev tmpfs 64K 0 64K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup none 396M 12M 384M 3% /run none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /run/shm From above, We can see under libvirt version 1.0.2, through lxc-enter-namespace, disk space info can be obtained and it's the same as info got from lxc inside. But when I did the same thing under libvirt of version 1.1.0 with debian host OS, the execution result changed: #disk info of host hzguanqiang@debian:~$ df -hl Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 4.0G 1.6G 2.2G 42% / udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev tmpfs 4.8G 468K 4.8G 1% /run /dev/disk/by-uuid/12bb656b-4f80-4386-aa07-4bf90a3111b4 4.0G 1.6G 2.2G 42% / tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock tmpfs 9.9G 0 9.9G 0% /run/shm /dev/sda8 428G 112G 313G 27% /home /dev/sda6 7.9G 159M 7.8G 2% /tmp /dev/sda5 16G 2.7G 14G 17% /var cgroup_root 24G 0 24G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/nbd5 1.4G 851M 466M 65% /home/openstack/stack/data/nova/instances/eed45ccb-3707-4815-9ae4-c7a2f56adb64/rootfs hzguanqiang@debian:~$ vir version Compiled against library: libvirt 1.1.0 Using library: libvirt 1.1.0 Using API: LXC 1.1.0 Running hypervisor: LXC 3.2.46 hzguanqiang@debian:~$ vir list Id Name State ---------------------------------------------------- 6096 instance-00000037 running 27981 instance-00000038 running 30846 instance-0000001a running hzguanqiang@debian:~$ vir lxc-enter-namespace instance-00000037 /bin/df -hl libvirt: error : argument unsupported: Security model cannot be entered hzguanqiang@debian:~$ vir lxc-enter-namespace instance-00000037 --noseclabel /bin/df -hl Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 4.0G 1.6G 2.2G 42% / udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev tmpfs 4.8G 468K 4.8G 1% /run /dev/disk/by-uuid/12bb656b-4f80-4386-aa07-4bf90a3111b4 4.0G 1.6G 2.2G 42% / tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock tmpfs 9.9G 0 9.9G 0% /run/shm /dev/sda8 428G 112G 313G 27% /home /dev/sda6 7.9G 159M 7.8G 2% /tmp /dev/sda5 16G 2.7G 14G 17% /var cgroup_root 24G 0 24G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/nbd5 1.4G 851M 466M 65% /home/openstack/stack/data/nova/instances/eed45ccb-3707-4815-9ae4-c7a2f56adb64/rootfs Then I logged into the lxc container : hzguanqiang@debian:~$ ssh -i id_rsa ubuntu@10.160.70.2 Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.46-openstack-amd64 x86_64) * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/ System information as of Wed Aug 7 10:49:35 UTC 2013 System load: 0.62 Processes: 31 Usage of /: 20.9% of 19.69GB Users logged in: 1 Memory usage: 51% IP address for eth0: 10.160.70.2 Swap usage: 0% Graph this data and manage this system at https://landscape.canonical.com/ Get cloud support with Ubuntu Advantage Cloud Guest: http://www.ubuntu.com/business/services/cloud Use Juju to deploy your cloud instances and workloads: https://juju.ubuntu.com/#cloud-precise Last login: Wed Aug 7 10:49:35 2013 from 10.160.70.3 ubuntu@lxc1:~$ df -hl Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/loop2 20G 11G 8.3G 57% / devfs 64K 8.0K 56K 13% /dev tmpfs 64K 0 64K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup none 4.8G 6.4M 4.8G 1% /run none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock none 24G 0 24G 0% /run/shm From above, We can see under libvirt version 1.1.0, disk space info of lxc container gotten through lxc-enter-namespace are different from info got from lxc inside, but the same as host. Why does this happen? Is there a bug or anything? Thanks -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ Best regards! GuanQiang