There is a reason for it, but I can’t discuss that. There is enough reason, and I know you would need some funky stuff (access stuff on host) to get it working, but that’s what I was looking at to see if it is feasible or if anyone has done it.
Anjali On 2/20/15, 5:37 AM, "Fajar A. Nugraha" <[email protected]> wrote: >On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Anjali Kulkarni <[email protected]> >wrote: >> Thanks, so for networking to work, all you need to do is add the >> networking links to the config file in /var/lib/lxc/<lxc_name> and then >> networking should work in the VM as it would in a normal LXC. > >Not if by "VM" you mean a qemu instance. > >> Regarding the freebsd VM, I understand that the host OS has to be the >>same >> as a container OS, but what I am looking for is a way to run the freebsd >> VM in emulated mode via qemu. Theoretically, if I can run a freebsd VM >>on >> the host OS via qemu/kvm, I should be able to run it inside the >>container >> via qemu as well right? > >No. > >Containers on lxc are not designed to run qemu (or virtualbox, or >name-your-fancy-software-that-access-devices directly) in it. In fact, >the default config on ubuntu would prevent that (via cap.drop and >selinux) to keep the containers from harming the host. > >You could PROBABLY work around it by creating an unsafe container >(e.g. using "lxc.cap.drop=" and "lxc.aa_profile=unconfined"), but then >what's the point of using containers then? > >> I don¹t want to map the VM¹s OS to the underlying >> OS, but just use qemu for the emulation part. Does that make sense? > >Not really. Is there any particular use case why you want to run >qemu/kvm instead the container, instead of on the host? Just because >it's cool? Because you rent a container from a VPS and want to run >something else on it? > >-- >Fajar >_______________________________________________ >lxc-users mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users _______________________________________________ lxc-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users
