On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Toby Corkindale <toby.corkind...@strategicdata.com.au> wrote: > On 03/08/10 17:44, Nirmal Guhan wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Toby Corkindale >> <toby.corkind...@strategicdata.com.au> wrote: >>> On 03/08/10 09:04, Nirmal Guhan wrote: >>>> 4) Hot swap does not work within the container. After usb device is >>>> reinserted, container cannot recognize it but host can. >>>> 5) "mount" within the container always displays just one single line >>>> while I have few more in fstab including the above /media stuff. >>>> none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) >>> >>> Again, that's because of the way LXC works with the filesystem. >>> >>> Perhaps you could just bind-mount the whole /media directory into the >>> guest containers, to their /media directory? That might work better for >>> you, although still not quite what you want. >> >> Thanks Toby. I doubt if this will address #1 and #4 above. Basically, >> how to make hot swap work? Or what are the workaround to get >> notifications if I have to manually mount/umount. > > > I think you would need to adjust the devices permissions for your > container, for the usb nodes.. but I'm not sure.. then the container > could talk to the USB devices over USB, and handle the hotswapping. > However I'd expect conflicts to occur with the host trying to talk to > the same device. > Try adding this to your config file? > > lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 189:* rwm > > I'm no expert and I haven't tried this myself, mind, so you might prefer > to wait for someone more qualified to answer. > > -Toby > Can you explain what this config means and 189 in particular? I tried this but did not help in hot swap. I believe that is because udev is not supported within the container and yes, you are correct about host/guest accessing the same device.
Any plans to support udev and usb pass-through in lxc ? --Nirmal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Lxc-users mailing list Lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users