[libvirt-users] Issue with 1.2.3 and lxcCheckNetNsSupport

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 04:53:44PM +0200, Thierry Parmentelat wrote:
> Hi there
> 
> I’ve just moved to libvirt-1.2.3 from 1.2.1; we use it for dealing with lxc containers
> I just wanted to report that everything went well for us with this new release, except for one little glitch
> At some point the lxc drivers seems to check that the kernel indeed has the netns feature built in
> Well in our environment this checks miserably fails; I haven’t been able to tell exactly why, but could find this post that might be related
> Bug 1050210 – lxcCheckNetNsSupport fails to detect NETNS
> 
> As a quick workaround I have this patch below in place, with which everything else seems to be working fine; at least all our system tests are passing..
> 
> It feels like the way the 1.2.3 code checks for the presence of netns is clearly not exactly right (in our case selinux is disabled), and I wish a more reliable solution can be found in the future :)

Yes, there was a screw up in LXC for this. It is fixed by

  https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-April/msg00315.html

which will be in GIT shortly & in the first 1.2.3.x maint release.

Regards,
Daniel
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