On 01/04/2011 09:36 AM, Rob Landley wrote: > I'm attempting to write a simple HOWTO for setting up a container with > LXC. Unfortunately, console handling is really really brittle and the > only way I've gotten it to work is kind of unpleasant to document. > > Using lxc 0.7.3 (both in debian sid and built from source myself), I > can lxc-create a container, and when I run lxc-start it launches init > in the container. But the console is screwy. > > If my init program is just a command shell, the first key I type will > crash lxc-start with an I/O error. (Wrapping said shell with a script > to redirect stdin/stdout/stderr to various /dev character devices > doesn't seem to improve matters.) > > Using the busybox template and the busybox-i686 binary off of > busybox.net, it runs init and connects to the various tty devices, and > this somehow prevents lxc-start from crashing. But if I "press enter > to active this console" like it says, the resulting shell prompt is > completely unusable. If I'm running from an actual TTY device, then > some of the keys I type go to the container and some don't. If my > console is connected to a PTY when I run lxc-start (such as if I ssh > in and run lxc-start from the ssh session), _none_ of the characters I > type go to the shell prompt. > > To get a usable shell prompt in the container, what I have to do is > lxc-start in one window, ssh into the server to get a fresh terminal, > and then run lxc-console in that second terminal. That's the only > magic sequence I've found so far that works.
Hmm, right. I was able to reproduce the problem. > > The attached html file is a long drawn-out reproduction sequence for > this. > > I tried downloading lxc-git to see if this is already fixed, but > running "autoconf" doesn't seem to want to produce a ./configure file > for me. ("configure.ac:8: error: possibly undefined macro: > AM_CONFIG_HEADER") I'm really not an autoconf expert (the whole thing > is just a horrible idea at the design level), so have no idea what I'm > doing wrong there. Is automake installed on your system ? Maybe the version is too old ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Lxc-devel mailing list Lxc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-devel