[libvirt-users] libvirt and lxc

Ryota Ozaki ozaki.ryota at gmail.com
Tue Aug 3 13:07:37 UTC 2010


Hi Nirmal,

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Nirmal Guhan <vavatutu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is anyone using libvirt for lxc ? I am trying to do so and running
> into an issue. The system container starts fine with lxc tools and am
> able to connect to it.
>
> Here is the snippet of my xml file (rest is same as in
> http://libvirt.org/drvlxc.html)
>
>  <devices>
>    <emulator>/usr/libexec/libvirt_lxc</emulator>
>    <filesystem type='mount'>
>      <source dir='/lxc/f12'/>
>      <target dir='/'/>
>    </filesystem>
>    <interface type='bridge'>
>      <mac address='52:54:00:82:87:64'/>
>      <source bridge='br0'/>
>      <target dev='tap0'/>
>    </interface>
>    <console type='pty'>
>      <target port='0'/>
>    </console>
>  </devices>
>
> Am able to start the container but when I do console :
>
> virsh # console f12lxc
> Connected to domain f12lxc
> Escape character is ^]
> <<hangs here and I press enter, it destroys the domain>>
> virsh #

Probably you set:
  <os>
    <type>exe</type>
    <init>/init</init>
  </os>
right? If so, could you try "/bin/sh" instead of "/init"?

  ozaki-r

>
> Am running Fedora 12 with 2.6.32.10-90.fc12.i686. I changed target
> dev='tap0' to 'veth' and no change in the behavior.
>
> Please help.
>
> Thanks,
> Nirmal
>
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