[lxc-users] User namespaces: is it a mandatory requirement for running lxc ?

[Fajar A. Nugraha]

On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 4:29 PM, David Shwatrz <dshwatrz at gmail.com> wrote:

> User namespace: missing
> ...
>
> This is the only item marked as "missing" in the output of lxc-checkconfig.
>
> My question is: will lxc work with this Fedoea 18 kernel ?
>

Yes.

The best example on lxc and user namespace is probably
http://s3hh.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/full-ubuntu-container-confined-in-a-user-namespace/


> In case this is only a warning, I have yet another short question: what
> will the script say when a mandatory namespace (like pid namesapce) is
> missing ? will it say explicitly that lxc cannot be run on this host ?
>

A simple test says it will print "required" in red.

-- 
Fajar
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