[Lxc-users] linux32/setarch

[Ralf Schmitt]

Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at free.fr> writes:

> On 09/07/2010 11:05 AM, Ralf Schmitt wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm running a 32 bit container on a 64 bit host system. Is there a
>> configuration option to set the architecture? Currently I'm using
>> 'linux32 lxc-start -n NAME' to set the architecture.
>>    
>
> hum, no. Maybe that would be worth to add a configuration option for
> this, so the personality is set right before exec'ing the command
> (eg. /sbin/init).

yes, I think it would be a worthwhile addition. I've had problems with a
centos guest, which started downloading 64 bit packages instead of the
32 bit ones. And I can also imagine some autoconf configure scripts
might get confused.

Cheers,
- Ralf