[Lxc-users] systemd inside LXC

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Serge Hallyn (serge.hallyn at canonical.com):
> Quoting Michael H. Warfield (mhw at WittsEnd.com):
> > 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
> 
> Saw the email, haven't yet read the page, thanks.

So based on that page, what we do (set 'container=lxc') should already be
sufficient.

-serge