Re: [libvirt-users] creating a lxc image to be used with libvirt-lxc

On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 05:20:19PM +0000, Spike wrote: > ok, thank you Daniel, that helps, I'll see if I can adapt it to other OS > and figure out the docker style stuff, it would be useful to run a few > things I have in mind. > > Btw, Daniel, have you ever tried to run libvirt inside a container? I was > trying to do so to test things since I didn't want to get all the stuff > installed on the host, but I got a whole bunch of errors and virt-manager > would not connect no matter what. You can run libvirt inside a container - I've done that the same reasons as you when i wanted to test stuff without messing up my host. It sounds like you were trying to connect using a virt-manager outside the container, talking to libvirtd inside the container. This gets more complicated - virt-manager connects over a UNIX domain socket at /var/run/libvirt by default. If you're running libvirtd inside a container, then the /var/run seen by libvirtd will be in the container filesystem, while the /var/run seen by virt-manager will be the host filesystem. You'd need to figure out a way for the /var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock in the container to be exposed to virt-manager in the host. Alternatively you would have to make libvirtd listen on a TCP address and connect over TCP with suitable auth. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :|