[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#526718: Bug#526718: libvirt: Please enable LXC (Linux Containers) and possibly OpenVZ support in libvirt

[Daniel Pittman]

Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> writes:
> On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 12:34:28PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> writes:
>> > On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 11:29:46AM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> >> Now that the Linux Containers (lxc) package has made it into unstable, it
>> >> would be really great if libvirt was built with support for them; the current
>> >> and next versions both support using them.
>> > Could you build libvirt with lxc support and verify that I works? I'd be
>> > happy to enable it then. Just change the --without-lxc to --with-lxc in
>> > debian/rules.
>> 
>> Apropos my previous report:
>> 
>> * src/lxc_driver.c: adds the getHostname method to the lxc driver
>> Daniel Veillard [Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:34:56 +0000 (09:34 +0000)]
>> 
>> http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libvirt.git;a=commitdiff;h=8e4c727075c51efea855f47c471b1aa4b728245e
>> 
>> I guess that is a known issue, and the console method will not work
>> until 0.6.3 is packaged; that includes that previous change.
>> 
>> I can, I suppose, try and build an 0.6.3 package myself and test it, or
>> I am more than happy to pre-test an updated package if you have one.
>
> I've uploaded 0.6.3 to unstable yesterday. You can do a:

So you had, and it took about eight more hours to get out to my mirror
here in Australia. :)

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> Thanks for testing, I'll enable lxc with the next upload,

No problem.  I can now confirm that the 0.6.3 release works fine with
LXC containers, including access to the console.

Regards,
        Daniel