Hey,<div><br></div><div>I also ran into an issue I could not actually google for, that is, trying to get a operating system LXC container running via virt-manager.</div><div><br></div><div>Following the creation-wizard, and in the end clicking on "create" results into a popup dialog with the following contents:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>Unable to complete install: 'internal error guest failed to start: PATH=/bin:/sbin TERM=linux LIBVIRT_LXC_UUID=590aa6d4-82d6-7b18-3fdd-0610e22d6059 LIBVIRT_LXC_NAME=ialu /sbin/init</div><div>19:35:29.518: 1: info : libvirt version: 0.9.6</div>
<div>19:35:29.518: 1: error : lxcContainerUnmountOldFS:889 : Failed to unmount '/.oldroot/sys/kernel/security': Too many levels of symbolic links</div><div>19:35:29.518: 29960: info : libvirt version: 0.9.6</div><div>
19:35:29.518: 29960: error : lxcControllerRun:940 : error receiving signal from container: Success</div><div>'</div><div><br></div><div>Traceback (most recent call last):</div><div> File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 44, in cb_wrapper</div>
<div> callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)</div><div> File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 1899, in do_install</div><div> guest.start_install(False, meter=meter)</div><div> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 1223, in start_install</div>
<div> noboot)</div><div> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 1291, in _create_guest</div><div> dom = self.conn.createLinux(start_xml or final_xml, 0)</div><div> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 2077, in createLinux</div>
<div> if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self)</div><div>libvirtError: internal error guest failed to start: PATH=/bin:/sbin TERM=linux LIBVIRT_LXC_UUID=590aa6d4-82d6-7b18-3fdd-0610e22d6059 LIBVIRT_LXC_NAME=ialu /sbin/init</div>
<div>19:35:29.518: 1: info : libvirt version: 0.9.6</div><div>19:35:29.518: 1: error : lxcContainerUnmountOldFS:889 : Failed to unmount '/.oldroot/sys/kernel/security': Too many levels of symbolic links</div><div>
19:35:29.518: 29960: info : libvirt version: 0.9.6</div><div>19:35:29.518: 29960: error : lxcControllerRun:940 : error receiving signal from container: Success</div><div><br></div></div><div>It seems, that virt-manager is running through my host mounts and wants them to be visible inside the guest's /.oldroot directory (just a guess).</div>
<div><br></div><div>my host mount tab looks like this (lots of dirs mounted via systemd):</div><div><div>rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)</div><div>/dev/root on / type btrfs (rw,noatime,ssd)</div><div>devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=1005036,mode=755)</div>
<div>proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)</div><div>sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)</div><div>tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime)</div><div>devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)</div>
<div>tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)</div><div>tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=755)</div><div>cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,release_agent=/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,clone_children,name=systemd)</div>
<div>cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset,clone_children)</div><div>cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,clone_children)</div><div>cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuacct,clone_children)</div>
<div>cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory,clone_children)</div><div>cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices,clone_children)</div>
<div>cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer,clone_children)</div><div>cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,clone_children)</div>
<div>cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio,clone_children)</div><div>systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=30,pgrp=1,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct)</div>
<div>systemd-1 on /sys/kernel/security type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=32,pgrp=1,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct)</div><div>systemd-1 on /sys/kernel/debug type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=33,pgrp=1,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct)</div>
<div>systemd-1 on /dev/mqueue type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=34,pgrp=1,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct)</div><div>systemd-1 on /dev/hugepages type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=35,pgrp=1,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct)</div>
<div>tmpfs on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)</div><div>tmpfs on /media type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=755)</div><div>fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)</div>
<div>/dev/sda3 on /mnt/windows type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096)</div><div>mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime)</div><div>hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime)</div>
<div>binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,relatime)</div><div>securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,relatime)</div><div>debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>Is there anything I can do to avoid this?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance,</div><div>Christian Parpart.</div>