On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:41:16AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > The LXC driver makes use of new clone flags for creating containers. It > creates a dummy container which immediately exits in order to test for > availabilty of this feature in the kernel. Unfortunately valgrind has > no knowledge of these new clone flags, gets very very unhappy and then > reports bogus memory leaks, bogus illegal instructions, and then often > SEGV's itself. Not cool. While obviously valgrind needs fixing, I looked > at its code, and it doesn't seem easy, so this patch adds a quick check > for a LD_PRELOAD environemnt variable which contains a library whose > name contains 'vgpreload'. If it sees this, LXC driver totally disables > itself. This lets me reliably valgrind the libvirtd daemon again. Okay, this is a workaround hack, I'm fine applying it but we should log this somewhere (TODO ?) to think about cleaning this up when valgrind get fixed. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list