On 09/07/2014 05:54 PM, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
On 09/07/2014 11:03 AM, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
On 09/03/2014 09:42 AM, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
On 09/02/2014 06:37 AM, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
OK, hopefully this mailing list is more active and I can get some response to my questions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I have been "playing with" Secure Containers running a lighttpd server and have it up and running. I used Adam's process (https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/07/23/bridged-networking-for-libvirt-with...) for getting a bridge defined when also running NetworkManager. I then created a virtual network definition:
<network> <name>net18</name> <uuid>8d19a05b-ac85-4e2a-88bc-5ca4cbb29a33</uuid> <forward mode='bridge'/> <bridge name='br0'/> </network> This works fine when I use static addresses such as: -N source=net18,address=192.168.18.94/24,route=192.168.18.255%192.168.18.1
but does not work when I specify using dhcp:
-N source=net18,dhcp I have reported this as a bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1133686
Since there has not been much of a reaction to the BZ report, I decided to take a look at the source code (it sure would have been nice if the SRPMS were there in the F20 fedora-virt-preview but I get the package from development/21).
I see that libvirt-sandbox-init-common.c has the code for starting dhcp and also has main() along with some runtime options for -v verbose and -d debug.
OK, how do I go about turning verbose and/or debug on?
Any suggestions on how to debug and get dhcp to work? I not only want to find the problem but to fix the problem if needed. While I have not figured out how to get dhcp to work with a secure container create by virt-sandbox-service, I have gotten a container working with the network up and a dhcp assigned IP using the lxc-* commands and following this procedure: https://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/24-introduction-to-containers-on-linux-us...
to create a "busybox" container. The network came up automatically.
Following the procedure in this tutorial: https://major.io/2014/04/21/launch-secure-lxc-containers-on-fedora-20-using-...
I created and installed a test container. I had to add ifcfg-eth0 for a simple network and then run "service network start" for the netowrk to actually come up ... which it did with a DHCP (actually dnsmasq) assigned IP address. Note that this procedure explicitly installs the dhclient package.
So, what am I doing "wrong" with secure containers? Or, is this a bug?
Ping!! Hello ... anybody out there??
To keep my sanity, would SOMEBODY PLEASE try doing a secure sandbox with a dhcp network and see if the network is started or not. My case: static network started, dhcpnetwork is NOT started (/sbin/dhclient is not running).
Here is what I have done so far:
1. "Instrumented" libvirt-sandbox-init-common.c and libvirt-sandbox-init-lxc.c by turning on debug and adding a whole bunch of fprintf(stderr,...) statements to track the initialization. These say that start_dhcp() in libvirt-sandbox-init-common.c is executed successfully. Nevertheless, for some reason, the g_spawn_async() did not result in a running /sbin/dhclient.
2. So, I tried running dhclient myself. I had two networks defined: "-N <static-ip>,source=net18 -N dhcp,source=default". After connecting top the secure container, I did: /sbin/dhclient --no-pid eth1 which resulted in the network on eth1 starting with a 192.168.122.<n> address.
3. I then went a step further. I took the start_dhcp() code from libvirt-sandbox-init-common.c and encapsulated it with a wrapper to fake what was done in init-common.c but with its own main(). Compiled this and put the binary where I could execute it after doing the connect. Stop, start, and connect to the secure container. The network on eth1 is not started. Run my test_dhcp_start program and the result was the eth1 network is started and there is a dhclient running.
Suggestions please!
This is getting really strange! I put a bash-shell-script wrapper around dhclient so that I could add a little logging when dhclient started. It is never executed!!! And yet, once the secure container has started, I can connect and manually run dhclient with no problems both direct command line and via a small fake-it program which runs g_spawn_async().
Part of the problem is that /usr/libexec/libvirt-sandbox-init-lxc and /usr/libexec/libvirt-sandbox-init-common run in the secure container environment but are also part of the software which initializes the secure container. At this point, I really wish that networking was a separate systemd service which was controlled by systemd. I wonder if there is some way to run gdb to help trace the execution.
Next step ... convert to using g_spawn_sync() rather than g_spawn_async() to see if that produces any change. The g_spawn_sync() seems to work OK running "ip" to set up the static IP NIC.
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I found the problem and have a fix (although I am not certain why there is a problem). Patches submitted. The "fix" is to use g_spawn_sync() rather than g_spawn_async() to start dhclient. Nextg, I need to get this built and running on F21. Gene