I was trying to get the lxc driver to work on ubuntu jaunty. This patch gets me further than I was getting before. Like I say below, it's probably not the right way though. -serge From: root <root(a)jaunty.(none)&gt; Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:41:01 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] lxc: only do CLONE_NEWUSER when kernel supports it The ubuntu jaunty kernel is not compiled with USER_NS. Since libvirt-lxc always does clone(CLONE_NEWUSER) it gets -EINVAL and mysteriously claims to be unable to contact hypervisor. This patch isn't the right thing to do, but I'm not sure what is. User namespaces do (since recently) isolate the in-kernel keyring. So the right thing might be to add a flag to the xml definition file to specify whether to use a user namespace. This patch doesn't do that, rather it always does CLONE_NEWUSER if the kernel supports it, and never if not. Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue(a)us.ibm.com&gt; --- src/lxc_container.c | 15 +++++++++++++-- src/lxc_container.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/lxc_container.c b/src/lxc_container.c index 67c66bd..8069af7 100644 --- a/src/lxc_container.c +++ b/src/lxc_container.c @@ -666,6 +666,11 @@ static int lxcContainerChild( void *data ) return lxcContainerExecInit(vmDef); } +int userns_supported(void) +{ + return lxcContainerAvailable(LXC_CONTAINER_FEATURE_USER) == 0; +} + /** * lxcContainerStart: * @driver: pointer to driver structure @@ -694,7 +699,10 @@ int lxcContainerStart(virDomainDefPtr def, } stacktop = stack + stacksize; - flags = CLONE_NEWPID|CLONE_NEWNS|CLONE_NEWUTS|CLONE_NEWUSER|CLONE_NEWIPC|SIGCHLD; + flags = CLONE_NEWPID|CLONE_NEWNS|CLONE_NEWUTS|CLONE_NEWIPC|SIGCHLD; + + if (userns_supported()) + flags |= CLONE_NEWUSER; if (def->nets != NULL) flags |= CLONE_NEWNET; @@ -719,13 +727,16 @@ static int lxcContainerDummyChild(void *argv ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED) int lxcContainerAvailable(int features) { - int flags = CLONE_NEWPID|CLONE_NEWNS|CLONE_NEWUTS|CLONE_NEWUSER| + int flags = CLONE_NEWPID|CLONE_NEWNS|CLONE_NEWUTS| CLONE_NEWIPC|SIGCHLD; int cpid; char *childStack; char *stack; int childStatus; + if (features & LXC_CONTAINER_FEATURE_USER) + flags |= CLONE_NEWUSER; + if (features & LXC_CONTAINER_FEATURE_NET) flags |= CLONE_NEWNET; diff --git a/src/lxc_container.h b/src/lxc_container.h index 5d037b0..b99e83e 100644 --- a/src/lxc_container.h +++ b/src/lxc_container.h @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ enum { LXC_CONTAINER_FEATURE_NET = (1 << 0), + LXC_CONTAINER_FEATURE_USER = (1 << 1), }; #define LXC_DEV_MAJ_MEMORY 1 -- 1.6.0.4