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On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 05:18:19PM +0300, Dmitry Guryanov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Libvirt can create loop or nbd device for LXC container and mount it by 
> itself, for instance, you can add something like this to xml config:
> 
> <filesystem type='file'>
>   <driver type='loop' format='raw'/>
>   <source file='/fedora-20-raw'/>
>   <target dir='/'/>
> </filesystem>
> 
> But nova mounts filesystem for container by itself. Is this because rhel-6 
> doesn't support filesystems with type='file' or there are some other reasons?

The support for mounting using NBD in OpenStack pre-dated the support
for doing this in Libvirt. In faact the reason I added this feature to
libvirt was precisely because OpenStack was doing this.

We haven't switched Nova over to use this new syntax yet though, because
that would imply a change to the min required libvirt version for LXC.
That said we should probably make such a change, because honestly no
one should be using LXC without using user namespaces, othewise their
cloud is horribly insecure. This would imply making the min libvirt for
LXC much much newer than it is today.

Regards,
Daniel
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