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...his new release, except for one little glitch At some point the lxc drivers seems to check that the kernel indeed has the netns feature built in Well in our environment this checks miserably fails; I haven’t been able to tell exactly why, but could find this post that might be related Bug 1050210 – lxcCheckNetNsSupport fails to detect NETNS As a quick workaround I have this patch below in place, with which everything else seems to be working fine; at least all our system tests are passing.. It feels like the way the 1.2.3 code checks for the presence of netns is clearly not exactly right (in our case selinux is...

..., except for one little glitch > At some point the lxc drivers seems to check that the kernel indeed has the netns feature built in > Well in our environment this checks miserably fails; I haven’t been able to tell exactly why, but could find this post that might be related > Bug 1050210 – lxcCheckNetNsSupport fails to detect NETNS > > As a quick workaround I have this patch below in place, with which everything else seems to be working fine; at least all our system tests are passing.. > > It feels like the way the 1.2.3 code checks for the presence of netns is clearly not exactly right (in...

...ay be able to check to fix this I > would really appreciate it. It has been bugging me for some time now. The command "ip link set lo netns -1" is called by the LXC driver (during its driver init) as a check to see if the OS supports network namespaces. This is done in the function lxcCheckNetNsSupport(), which was added to libvirt's LXC driver in commit 99ded85f4 in 2008, has 0 comments about how it works, and has been functionally unchanged since then. It appears that on your system for whatever reason the attempt to send the netlink message that sets the netns for lo to -1 fails the fi...