On 01/21/2014 01:59 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 06:53:28PM +0100, Thierry Parmentelat 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 :-) > > Yes, it already exists, albeit as a lxc specific custom command/api: > > $ virsh lxc-enter-namespace $CONTAINER /path/to/command/to/run arg1 arg2... > > There's a corresponding API in the libvirt-lxc.so library > virDomainLxcEnterNamspace > > Eventually we'll turn this into a proper libvirt API with a less sucky > virsh command name. Sorry for another question, lxc-enter-namespace is unavailable on the remote machine, you can't use virsh -c lxc+ssh://root@x.x.x.x/ lxc-enter-namespace $CONTAINER /path/to/command/to/run arg1 arg2. I want to know what's the major handicap that we cannot support lxc-enter-namespace on remote machine. Thanks! -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list