[Lxc-users] LXC + VirtualBox = Frozen Host

[Derek Simkowiak]

     Be sure you are not also running KVM, VMware, or any other VM 
software.  At this writing, only one virtualization platform can run at 
a time.

     LXC is not a virtualization platform (because it doesn't run 
multiple kernels on one CPU).  So your VirtualBox freeze-ups are 
probably not related to the use of LXC (but I haven't tried it myself).


--Derek

On 11/18/2012 10:03 AM, John Drescher wrote:
>
>     I have been seeing reproducible freezes each time I start a
>     VirtualBox VM when at least one of my LXC containers are already
>     running. Even my mouse cursor is frozen, and all I could do is a
>     hard reset each time.
>
>     Here are some of the cases that I have tried:
>     1.) Starting a VirtualBox VM when an LXC container is already
>     running effectively freezes the host.
>     2.) Starting an LXC container when a VirtualBox VM is already
>     booted is fine.
>     3.) Starting another LXC container after point (2) is also fine.
>     4.) Starting antother VirtualBox VM after point (3) is also fine.
>
>     Could somebody kindly share some light here? It seems that the
>     initial startup of the VirtualBox module is the trigger here. Does
>     LXC and VirtualBox really could co-exists together at the same time?
>
>
> Yes. They have no problem working together for me.
>
>
>     I intend to utilize the VirtualBox VMs for
>     other-than-Linux-workload, whereas the LXC containers for all
>     Linux workload. For the info, the host is a Linux Mint 13
>     (3.2.0-33-generic 64-bit) using VirtualBox 4.2.4. Both VirtualBox
>     VM's files and LXC container's rootfs are on top of ZFS filesystem.
>
>
> I start with a newer kernel.
>
> John
>
>
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