Some more details on my system. I am running CentOS 6.5. To install libvirt and LXC, I performed the following command:

Some more details on my system. I am running CentOS 6.5. To install libvirt and LXC, I performed the following command: yum install libvirt libvirt-client python-virtinst I have turned selinux to DISABLED.

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Jacob Everist <jacob.everist(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote: > Hello, > > I am having difficulty getting any sort of LXC container running. I am > trying to use the following tutorial to run the hello world example: > > > https://www.berrange.com/posts/2011/09/27/getting-started-with-lxc-using-... > > > Here are the results of my running the tutorial: > > [root@terraria ~]# virsh list > Id Name State > ---------------------------------------------------- > > [root@terraria ~]# virsh uri > lxc:/// > > [root@terraria ~]# cat helloworld.xml > <domain type='lxc'> > <name>helloworld</name> > <memory>102400</memory> > <os> > <type>exe</type> > <init>/bin/sh</init> > </os> > <devices> > <console type='pty'/> > </devices> > </domain> > [root@terraria ~]# virsh define helloworld.xml > Domain helloworld defined from helloworld.xml > > [root@terraria ~]# virsh start helloworld > error: Failed to start domain helloworld > error: internal error guest failed to start: PATH=/bin:/sbin TERM=linux > container=lxc-libvirt container_uuid=791640de-95a9-082c-7292-c55106bcdca9 > LIBVIRT_LXC_UUID=791640de-95a9-082c-7292-c55106bcdca9 > LIBVIRT_LXC_NAME=helloworld /bin/sh > error receiving signal from container: Input/output error > > --- > > As you can see, I am getting an error. How do I go about diagnosing this > error? This is a fresh install so the only thing I have been using this > machine for is for LXC/libvirt testing.