[libvirt-users] How to run a cmd inside lxc through libvirt API?

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Fri Feb 22 09:53:49 UTC 2013


On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 09:27:05AM +0000, 张章 wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> As far as I know, I can not run a cmd inside lxc through
> shell after "virsh -c lxc:/// console". How could I run
> a cmd though libvirt API instead of shell like the userspace
> tool lxc_start(name, cmd, conf)? 

Latest libvirt has a new command for running stuff inside a container

   virsh -c lxc:/// lxc-enter-namespace mycontainername -- /bin/ps -auxf

This requires a fairly new kernel(3.7 or even 3.8 kernel is preferred)
since it needs all 6 namespaces present in /proc/self/ns to work properly.

Regards,
Daniel
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