Hi Again Just a follow up question, I had a chat today with an ArchArm user in the IRC chat channel, and he said that it is impossible to run a x86 container on Lxc with an ARM host . Is this true ? Because if it is, lxc doesn't really help with the Pi at all .
On 04/03/2013 11:10 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > Cross posting over to the developers list, since this is definitely a > developer issue... > > On Wed, 2013-04-03 at 11:29 +0200, Benito wrote: >> Hi There >> >> I've been working on a project on the Raspberry PI , where we want to >> run a 32-bit /64-bit fedora 14 container >> on the RaspberryPi . I've had success with LXC on a Mint14 64-bit (which >> is Ubuntu 12 based I believe) host with Fedora 14 - 64bit container ( >> Downloaded FC14 with the template -t parameter below..,, It was as easy >> as running : >> >> apt-get install yum >> lxc-create -t fedora -n fedora14 > Ok... Got the latest lxc compiled on my Raspberry Pi. There seem to be > 4 things broken with the "fedora" template on the RPi, two of which are > peculiar to running on the Fedora Remix but one big one will bite > Raspbian as well. One is a version/config issue with the Fedora > container for supporting systemd in a container. > > 1) The architecture is reported by the OS as armv6l but this fails. The > arm processors should be mapped to arch = arm. That means adding an if > check in the template. That applies to both Raspbian and Fedora Remix > hosts. I don't know of other architechtures are similarly affected. > > 2) Running under Fedora Remix 17, the template can not find the release > information and doesn't recognize it as a Fedora family. Instead of > being in /etc/fedora-release, it's > in /etc/raspberrypi-fedora-remix-release but could also be extracted > from /etc/redhat-release, which is a symlink. > > 3) On Fedora Remix, if it finds the release (I added a symlink to test), > it's extracting the wrong field for the version number from the release > file. > > This is vanilla Fedora 17: > > Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) > > This is the RPi Fedora Remix 17: > > Fedora remix release 17 (Raspberrypi Fedora Remix) > > The template script is extracting the third field (word) and is one off > in this case. That also causes the yum downloads to bomb. > > Both points 2 & 3 can be circumvented by including the -R release to the > template like this: > > lxc-create -t fedora -n Fedora17 -- -R 17 > > But that still leaves the bad architecture which then causes the yum > downloads to blow up. I added this to the template to get it to work > and it's building a container now. > > if [ "$arch" = "i686" ]; then > arch=i386 > fi > > + if [ "$arch" = "armv6l" ]; then > + arch=arm > + fi > > That should probably be turned into a case statement. > > Detecting the correct release file is probably going to be a little ugly > and, maybe, should fall back to /etc/redhat-release if fedora-release is > not present, detect the keyword "Fedora" and skip the optional word > "Remix". > > 4) Finally, there's going to need to be a version check in there to add > "autodev = 1" to container configs for versions greater than 14 or > systemd in the container will cause problems for the host system. > > Regards, > Mike > >> Now I've been struggling with this for a few weeks , Compiled an LXC >> friendly kernel on the Raspbian OS, - Debian wheezy ARM , also tried >> with Fedora ARM remix. >> Is it even possible to run a fedora14 container on ARM (raspberry pi) >> architecture ? >> If so can anyone point me in the right direction ? >> >> Regards >> Benito >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. >> Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire >> the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the >> Employer Resources Portal >> http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html >> _______________________________________________ >> Lxc-users mailing list >> lxc-us...@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html _______________________________________________ Lxc-devel mailing list Lxc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-devel
