Re: [libvirt] Environmental Variables inside a container
Hi Eric
Thanks for the reply.
I am trying to run standard Ubuntu lxc file System(lxc-ubuntu) and
/sbin/init of Ubuntu is the root process of lxc process tree.
I believe most of the lxc containers start with /sbin/init
as first process.
Since I didn't exactly find the code of /sbin/init, I assumed
since libvirt_lxc is currently sending environmental flags
to first process(I believe mostly it is /sbin/init) of LXC container
and hence this would be visible inside the container and assumed
that /sbin/init in general should pass on this environment flags to
child process.
Though I know its not an libvirt issue, if its not passing on environment,
just wanted to know if you have some knowledge about what might going on.
Thanks in advance
Regards
Devendra
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Blake" <eblake(a)redhat.com>
To: "Devendra K. Modium" <dmodium(a)isi.edu>
Cc: libvir-list(a)redhat.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 3:13:51 PM
Subject: Re: [libvirt] Environmental Variables inside a container
On 07/27/2011 12:44 PM, Devendra K. Modium wrote:
Hi All
I am trying to pass an environmental flag to the
LXC container when it is started.I found libvirt_lxc is
already doing it in lxc_container.c as shown below
static virCommandPtr lxcContainerBuildInitCmd(virDomainDefPtr vmDef)
{
char uuidstr[VIR_UUID_STRING_BUFLEN];
virCommandPtr cmd;
virUUIDFormat(vmDef->uuid, uuidstr);
cmd = virCommandNew(vmDef->os.init);
virCommandAddEnvString(cmd, "PATH=/bin:/sbin");
virCommandAddEnvString(cmd, "TERM=linux-deva");
virCommandAddEnvPair(cmd, "LIBVIRT_LXC_UUID", uuidstr);
virCommandAddEnvPair(cmd, "LIBVIRT_LXC_NAME", vmDef->name);
Yes, this list is hard-coded, and only guarantees to affect the
environment of the process at the root of the lxc process tree.
But only
TERM flag is getting visible inside the container not remaining.
Does it depends on how /sbin/init is receiving them? Is /sbin/init
only recognizing TERM flag.
Probably something in your lxc process hierarchy is scrubbing
environment variables prior to starting additional processes, but that's
out of libvirt's control - libvirt can only affect the environment of
the parent process.
If so what is intention of sending remaining flags in current
libvirt.
Please let me know if there is any elegant way to send environmental
variable to container.
Sounds like it might be an interesting feature to enhance the xml for
lxc domains to allow the specification of additional environment
variables that should be inherited into the lxc process tree, beyond the
few variables already hard-coded by libvirt.
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Eric Blake eblake(a)redhat.com +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org