Hello, I am trying to use libaio engine for a job file in my docker container, but it throws fio: engine libaio not loadable error. fio --name=hello1 --size=1m --ioengine=libaio fio: engine libaio not loadable fio: engine libaio not loadable fio: failed to load engine fio: file:ioengines.c:89, func=dlopen, error=libaio: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Available IO engines: [root@210df130f2c7 fio-data]# fio --enghelp Available IO engines: cpuio mmap sync psync vsync pvsync pvsync2 null net netsplice ftruncate filecreate posixaio falloc e4defrag splice mtd sg libaio is not listed above, but its installed in container. yum install libaio Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, ovl Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: ftp.iitm.ac.in * extras: ftp.iitm.ac.in * updates: ftp.iitm.ac.in Package libaio-0.3.109-13.el7.x86_64 already installed and latest version Nothing to do Centos docker container : centos-release-7-5.1804.5.el7.centos.x86_64 Re pvsync2 operation not permitted error fio --name=hello --size=10m --ioengine=pvsync2 hello: (g=0): rw=read, bs=(R) 4096B-4096B, (W) 4096B-4096B, (T) 4096B-4096B, ioengine=pvsync2, iodepth=1 fio-3.12-18-g92a1 Starting 1 process hello: Laying out IO file (1 file / 10MiB) fio: io_u error on file hello.0.0: Operation not permitted: read offset=0, buflen=4096 fio: pid=59, err=1/file:io_u.c:1789, func=io_u error, error=Operation not permitted hello: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 1 (file:io_u.c:1789, func=io_u error, error=Operation not permitted): pid=59: Sun Nov 25 19:23:14 2018 cpu : usr=0.00%, sys=0.00%, ctx=2, majf=0, minf=19 IO depths : 1=100.0%, 2=0.0%, 4=0.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, >=64=0.0% submit : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0% complete : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0% issued rwts: total=1,0,0,0 short=0,0,0,0 dropped=0,0,0,0 latency : target=0, window=0, percentile=100.00%, depth=1 Run status group 0 (all jobs): Disk stats (read/write): sda: ios=0/0, merge=0/0, ticks=0/0, in_queue=0, util=0.00% I dont have access to machine running centos, so running in centos docker container. Are these issues occuring because of running in fio? host machine OS is ubuntu 18.04. Thanks and Regards, Mohan