[lxc-devel] Cross arch container thoughts - Call for Discussion...

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Michael H. Warfield (mhw at WittsEnd.com):
> On Tue, 2014-04-01 at 19:58 -0400, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> 
> > Hmm, aren't we already doing that?
> 
> > stgraber at castiana:~$ uname -m
> > x86_64
> 
> > stgraber at castiana:~$ lxc-create -t download -n i386 -- -d ubuntu -r trusty -a i386
> > Using image from local cache
> > Unpacking the rootfs
> 
> Was missing from the CentOS and Fedora templates.  Patch submitted.
> 
> I'm able to build the NST images now for the i686 platform on an x86_64
> host.  Nice!  I'll coordinate some things with Paul and them for further
> integration.
> 
> I've very interested in this loopfs thing that Serge was mentioning but,
> in the mean time, I'll cobble together something for the loop devices.

Hi,

the code fwiw is at

git://kernel.ubuntu.com/sforshee/ubuntu-trusty.git #devloop

> Curious, it doesn't look like the loop devices are namespace / cgroup
> aware.  Running "losetup -l" in the host or in any container with access
> shows all the setup loop devices regardless of container (though it only
> shows the container relative path).  Not sure that's the right thing but
> that's a kernel driver issue.
> 
> Regards,
> Mike
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