Re: What is the robust/recommended way to retrieve the PID of a VM's init process ?

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Oh, and I was about to forget..
The system I am talking about is PlanetLab, that we now manage with libvirt/lxc instead of the old vserver-based stuff (although the public testbed still is vastly vserver-based)
And in that context too, it’s much more efficient for us to plug an incoming ssh request inside the host to a simple fork that runs in the container context, instead of relying here again on ssh to reach the container..

My $0.02 — thanks again — Thierry

On 20 Jan 2014, at 18:53, Thierry Parmentelat <thierry.parmentelat@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Well if I need to run anything in the container context, short of entering it through e.g. ssh - hoping this is properly set up - well, I can’t..
> 
> I am using libvirt / lxc to set up a build box; essentially every night I would spawn a set of fresh VMs of some flavours (fedora18, ubuntu, what not) and use this to rebuild my system from scratch
> In this context it’s a real hassle to have to even set up ssh, there is no good reason for the build VM to run an ssh service at all, and I am concerned it might pull dependencies that I do not need/want
> I’d much rather have a direct means to just run some command inside the container.
> 
> Admittedly I’m brain-damaged after having used vservers for too long, and their ‘vserver <container> exec command to run’ feature is in my genes now ;)
> 
> Now maybe I am the one who is missing something and there already is something to do that ?
> Using the trick below I essentially have what I need mind you, I’m just concerned that it kind of works by accident :-)
> 
> Thanks for the feedback in any case — Thierry
> 
> On 20 Jan 2014, at 12:49, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:38:08AM +0100, Thierry Parmentelat wrote:
>>> Hello there
>>> 
>>> I am trying to locate the namespaces in place for a given lxc container (specifically /proc/<pid>/ns/*)
>>> 
>>> And to this end I was wondering what is the recommended way to probe for an lxc container's init pid
>>> (mostly I'm after the mnt and pid namespaces, and probably network ones, but the actual list probably should not matter) 
>>> 
>>> I've found about "virsh domid" but this gives me the pid for libvirt_lxc, which turns out to have unmodified namespaces (at least as far as the mnt ns)
>>> OTOH this process has exactly one child which is the container's init, which seems to have the right set of namespaces 
>>> 
>>> My angle right now is to look in /proc/<domid_pid>/task/children for a - hopefully single - pid and
>>> that seems to work for now, but I am concerned this code may be fragile so I would rather use a more
>>> robust approach; or maybe this is robust ? 
>> 
>> We don't really wish to expose the container PIDs to the host or namespace
>> details to client apps. Can you give more info about what you're trying to
>> achieve overall. I'd like to understand if there's some higher level API
>> we're missing that would more directly address your needs.
>> 
>> 
>> Daniel
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