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Re:: loop devices in CT still not allowed ?
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description: 13.06.2012 17:12 пользователь "Namikaze Minato" < lloydsensei+openvz@gmail.com> написал: > > Hello everybody. > I'm sorry to dig something that was already corrected before, but I > got some errors I don't manage to take care of alone. > > I'm running a SLES11.1 host and a SLES11.1 CT. More important piece of information is which openvz kernel do you use? OK, I see below that it is 042stab046.1 self-compiled. > > First (minor) problem is that services are not started when I start a > CT. I have to start them manually after each boot. (Runlevel retuns > "unknown" in the CTs) Are you using a CT made from precreated template from openvz.org, or anything else? > > Second (the error I wrote this mail for): > vzctl set --devices|--devnodes: do not allow to enable loop devices in CT > was a bug corrected in version 3.0.29 according to this page: > http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/vzctl/3.0.29 Loop devices are not allowed in CT for security reason. This is what 3.0.29 fixed (previously it was possible to enable loop device inside CT). > I've tried: > vzctl set 404 --devnodes loop0:rw > on version 3.1 without success (returning this: > Device loop0 is not allowed to be assigned to a CT > Bad parameter for --devnodes: loop0:rw > ), and got exactly the same result with version 3.3 > BLK_DEV_LOOP is compiled inside the openvz kernel (2.6.32 vanilla + > 042stab049.6 patch), so it's not a problem of the loop module not > loading on startup. > > Why is this loop device problem bothering me ? Because every time I > want to install a package that has a dependency which can be resolved > by an rpm from the ISO, the package manager can't mount the ISO to use > these rpms. Use fuseiso. > I hope you can help me a little on these cases, otherwise I'll have to > stick with these hacks on a prod server, which would not be great. > I'll answer all questions I can answer :) > > Thank you very much ! > LLoyd
creator: kir
date: 2012-06-13T15:23:10-00:00