[libvirt] Re: the <filesystem> tag (WAS: simple LXC/libvirt busybox container (Unable to get cgroup))

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 05:44:30PM -0600, Tony Risinger wrote:
> wow!  i was starting to think i would never get past this problem!
> 
> [root at PHS-001 ~]# echo $VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI
> lxc:///
> 
> [root at PHS-001 ~]# virsh create /vps/def/exec/sys/arch-nano.xml
> Domain arch-nano created from /vps/def/exec/sys/arch-nano.xml
> 
> [root at PHS-001 ~]# virsh console arch-nano
> Connected to domain arch-nano
> Escape character is ^]
> #
> 
> [root at PHS-001 ~]# grep cgroup /proc/mounts
> none /cgroup cgroup rw,relatime,devices,memory,cpuacct,cpu 0 0
> 
> everything seems to be working fine now after disabling "ns" from
> cgroup mount; thank you very much Ryota and Daniel for you time and
> assistance.  i must have sunk 40+ hours into this, but i learned a
> tremendous amount, so nothing is lost. :-)
> 
> this is somewhat of a digression, and i can submit a new thread if
> need be, but my last remaining question is about the <filesystem>
> tag/root mounting.  i have not found any mention of the <filesystem>
> tag in the docs or how to work with it... i want to have libvirt mount
> a specified device (a btrfs subvolume) and use it for the root
> filesystem of the created LXC container.  is there a way to do this?
> perhaps <source dev="/dev/sdb" options="subvol....."/>, or do i need
> to use the storage XML?  i didnt see a way to use a storage/device
> definition as the rootfs.

The plan is that the <filesystem> tag will eventually support 3 types
of sources, a directory (which gets bind mounted into the root),
a file (loopback device + mounted), or block device (directly mounted).
Currently though we only support the first option. So if you have a
block device, you should first mount it in your host OS, and then let
LXC bind the mount point into the container.

Regards,
Daniel
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