[Lxc-users] systemd inside LXC

Michael H. Warfield mhw at WittsEnd.com
Mon Oct 22 02:21:01 UTC 2012


On Sun, 2012-10-21 at 14:49 -0500, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Michael H. Warfield (mhw at WittsEnd.com):
> > Serge,
> > 

...

> > Short of building a custom systemd, I don't know how to fix that problem
> > and I suspect this OP is going to run into this same thing (container
> > taking over host's console) and might explain some of what he's seeing.
> > Several of these look like they could cause problems (like /dev/pts in
> > there).  I've really reached an impasse at getting systemd (at least
> > Fedora 16 and 17) to work in a container without screwing up the host.
> > Prohibiting mounts entirely in the container might work but I suspect
> > (having read some systemd error messages) systemd is going to have some
> > serious heartburn there.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> 
> IIRC, simply having apparmor(/selinux) refuse the mount of /dev by the
> container should work, i.e. systemd was not going to fail as a result.

Hopefully, you've seen the message from Kay Sievers cc'ed to this list
from my post to the systemd-devel list.  Looks like they have a
mechanism in place to do this...

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ContainerInterface

First step appears to be to set a container=LXC (or some other short
string) before invoking init in the container.  Is there a mechanism to
do this?

Might look over the rest of their recommendation and see if there's
anything else we need to do.  Looks like there might be some additional
mounts (some read-only) in there that need to be handled in lxc-start as
well.

> -serge

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Regards,
Mike
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