On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:53:07AM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > Quoting Daniel P. Berrange (berrange@xxxxxxxxxx): > > This is a short^H^H^H^H^H long mail to introduce / walk-through some > > - Create a simple chroot environment using busybox > > > > mkdir /root/mycontainer > > mkdir /root/mycontainer/bin > > mkdir /root/mycontainer/sbin > > cp /sbin/busybox /root/mycontainer/sbin > > for cmd in sh ls chdir chmod rm cat vi > > do > > ln -s /root/mycontainer/bin/$cmd ../sbin/busybox > > ITYM ln -s ../sbin/busybox /root/mycontainer/bin/$cmd ? :) Yes, clearly :-) > > - Create a simple libvirt configuration file for the > > container, defining the root filesystem, the network > > connection (bridged to br0 in this case), and the > > path to the 'init' binary (defaults to /sbin/init if > > omitted) > > > > # cat > mycontainer.xml <<EOF > > <domain type='lxc'> > > <name>mycontainer</name> > > <memory>500000</memory> > > <os> > > <type>exe</type> > > <init>/sbin/init</init> > > </os> > > <devices> > > <filesystem type='mount'> > > <source dir='/root/mycontainer'/> > > <target dir='/'/> > > </filesystem> > > <interface type='bridge'> > > <source network='br0'/> > > <mac address='00:11:22:34:34:34'/> > > </interface> > > <console type='pty' /> > > </devices> > > </domain> > > EOF > > You might want to consider an option to set up mounts > propagation automatically. That way the host admin could look under > /root/mycontainer/proc, /root/mycontainer/sys, etc, and get meaningful > information. > > > - Load the configuration into libvirt > > > > # virsh --connect lxc:/// define mycontainer.xml > > Alas, I'm getting: > > libvir: Domain Config error : internal error No <source> 'dev' attribute > specified with <interface type='bridge'/> > error: Failed to define domain from mycontainer.xml > > (libvir is not my typo :) Several typos :-) The error message is complaining about the lack of the 'dev' attribute when it should have been complaining about the the 'bridge' attribute, and the example I gave is wrong too. In my example XML, change the interface block to: <interface type='bridge'> <source bridge='br0'/> <mac address='00:11:22:34:34:34'/> </interface> Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers