Quoting Bas Pape (basp...@gmail.com): > > 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 ? > > Yes, it is. Linux containers (the concept, not just this particular > set of tools) use the host kernel and isolate applications using > namespaces. This also means that if the host kernel is not able to run > the application, it won't work. arm kernels cannot run x86, so plain > lxc won't work (qemu might, but whether that's a good idea on arm...)
No, in theory you should be able to run a x86 container on arm the same way we run arm containers on x86 - by registering qemu-i386-static as binfmt handler. In practice, as I said earlier (I think in this thread) just as qemu-arm-static has bugs on x86, I'd expect qemu-i386-static to have bugs on arm. And you unfortunately can't ptrace that way. -serge ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
