On Thu, Jun 10, 2021, 8:35 AM Stephen Gallagher <sgall...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 5:51 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 09:39:38AM +0100, Ankur Sinha wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 09:02:47 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > > > > > This appeared yesterday: > > > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/container/libguestfs > > > > > > > > I'm wondering what it is? > > > > > > That should be the container image generated from the Fedora package > for > > > the Fedora registry: > > > > > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/containers/ > > > > So it would be a container built on top of Fedora Rawhide containing > > libguestfs? Do we intend to build containers like this from other > > Fedora packages? I'm curious what the use case is. > > > > (NB: this is not an objection to anything, people can build containers > > for whatever they want for all I care) > > > > This specific example is to address one of the FESCo concerns about > the cloud VM images using btrfs by default. Since RHEL VM host systems > cannot read the btrfs filesystem, we want to ship a containerized > version of libguestfs that CAN. > That can what? As far as I know, libguestfs relies on the host to mount the filesystem. A container still depends on the host kernel, which means a rhel VM still isn't going to be able to mount the guest btrfs disk... What am I missing?
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