Re: [Libguestfs] Notes on building libguestfs in a systemd-nspawn container

On 01/30/2014 03:58 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >>> - `make -k check` is still running as I write this, albeit >>> a bit slow. >> >> This just finished (in the container): >> >> [. . .] >> grep -v -E '^(examples|gnulib|perl/(blib|examples)|po-docs|tests)/' | \ >> grep -v -E '/((guestfs|rc)_protocol\.c)$' | \ >> LC_ALL=C sort > po/POTFILES >> cd .; \ >> find builder mllib resize sparsify sysprep -name '*.ml' | \ >> LC_ALL=C sort > po/POTFILES-ml >> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/libguestfs' >> make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1 >> GEN public-submodule-commit >> make: Target `check' not remade because of errors. >> >> real 474m53.630s >> user 325m54.254s >> sys 205m58.032s >> >> -bash-4.2# git log | head -1 >> commit c841d08d7084db69e81614d54423686cf0566ad6 >> >> >> Again, for comparison, `make -k check` on _host_: >> >> real 63m1.078s >> user 54m39.393s >> sys 12m8.130s > > Is KVM available in the container? I've never tried that actually .. No it isn't (as Dan noted in his next thread) ========= -bash-4.2# file /dev/kvm /dev/kvm: ERROR: cannot open `/dev/kvm' (No such file or directory) ========= -bash-4.2# virt-host-validate QEMU: Checking for hardware virtualization : PASS QEMU: Checking for device /dev/kvm : FAIL (Check that the 'kvm-intel' or 'kvm-amd' modules are loaded & the BIOS has enabled virtualization) QEMU: Checking for device /dev/vhost-net : WARN (Load the 'vhost_net' module to improve performance of virtio networking) QEMU: Checking for device /dev/net/tun : FAIL (Load the 'tun' module to enable networking for QEMU guests) LXC: Checking for Linux >= 2.6.26 : PASS ========= Despite reading from the `systemd-nspawn` man page: ". . .kernel modules may not be loaded from within the container." I purposefully tried from inside the container: