Re: [libvirt-users] Issue with 1.2.3 and lxcCheckNetNsSupport

On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 04:53:44PM +0200, Thierry Parmentelat wrote: > Hi there > > I’ve just moved to libvirt-1.2.3 from 1.2.1; we use it for dealing with lxc containers > I just wanted to report that everything went well for us with this new release, except for one little glitch > At some point the lxc drivers seems to check that the kernel indeed has the netns feature built in > Well in our environment this checks miserably fails; I haven’t been able to tell exactly why, but could find this post that might be related > Bug 1050210 – lxcCheckNetNsSupport fails to detect NETNS > > As a quick workaround I have this patch below in place, with which everything else seems to be working fine; at least all our system tests are passing.. > > It feels like the way the 1.2.3 code checks for the presence of netns is clearly not exactly right (in our case selinux is disabled), and I wish a more reliable solution can be found in the future :) Yes, there was a screw up in LXC for this. It is fixed by https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-April/msg00315.html which will be in GIT shortly & in the first 1.2.3.x maint release. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|