[Lxc-users] Camera access inside container

[vignesh kumar]

Hi,
   I have added the line as you mentioned and restarted the container as
well. Still getting the same issue.

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn at canonical.com>wrote:

> Quoting vignesh kumar (vigneshkumar86 at gmail.com):
> > Hi,
> >     I am using a lxc-ubuntu container in a ubuntu 11.10 host OS. An
> > application running in a container requires camera access . Currently
> > I have a USB based webcam which mount as /dev/video0 in my host.I
> > tried giving access to the device by adding the  line
> > "lxc.cgroup.allow=c 81:0 rwm" in my lxc config file. But still getting
>
> this needs to be lxc.cgroup.devices.allow
>
> > error msg "mknod:/dev/video0 Operation not permitted" in my container.
> > Can anyone give me a solution  in accessing camera inside a container?
>
> Did you stop and re-start your container after adding that line to
> your config?
>
> -serge
>
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