[lxc-users] iSCSI session initiation inside a container

[Jason Harley]

I've found an open bug tracking this issue:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1226855

I'll move this to launchpad but am sharing here to close the loop for anyone else hunting for a solution.  

./JRH 

> On Nov 7, 2014, at 15:41, Jason Harley <jharley at redmind.ca> wrote:
> 
> I’ve been successfully running KVM in an unrestricted container for some months now.  Yesterday I tried to attach an iSCSI device to a VM running in a container, and discovered that there’s some trickery here involving NETLINK namespaces.
> 
> I’ve found a few old mailing list posts (one with a patch submitted in 2012[1]) of people running into this same issue and am wondering if there is a solution available (confirmed or in testing), or if one is on the horizon?  The LXD announcement seems to suggest this is a problem on the project’s radar as well.\
> 
> I’m running kernel 3.13.0-39 and LXC 1.0.6-0ubuntu0.1.  Does anyone have a method for giving a privileged container access to initiate iSCSI sessions?
> 
> ./JRH
> 
> 1: http://copilotco.com/mail-archives/open-iscsi.2012/msg00020.html
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