[Users] 32bit vztools and 64bit kernel

Kirill Korotaev dev at parallels.com
Mon Apr 21 14:21:05 EDT 2008


yes. it's known incompatibility. plz use 64bit tools with 64bit kernel.
there was a bug, but it's low priority, since not critical/major one.


Alexander GQ Gerasiov wrote:
> Hello again.
> 
> I'm experimenting with openvz and found one more issue.
> I'm using 32bit system Debian Lenny i386. Kernel compiled for i686
> processor with vz-tools for i386 arch works ok, but when I tried to
> boot into x86_64 kernel (with the same 32bit userspace) vztools said
> strange things:
> 
> root at vice:~# ls /var/lib/vzquota/
> root at vice:~# vzctl --verbose start 1001
> Starting VE ...
> Initializing quota ...
> VE is mounted
> Error: kernel does not support user resources. Please, rebuild with
> CONFIG_USER_RESOURCE=y
> VE start failed
> Received signal:  11 in /usr/sbin/vzquota
> Error: Unable to apply new quota values quota not running
> Received signal:  11 in /usr/sbin/vzquota
> VE is unmounted
> 
> If I turn off vz's disk quotas I see
> 
> root at vice:~# vzctl --verbose start 1001
> Starting VE ...
> Initializing quota ...
> VE is mounted
> Error: kernel does not support user resources. Please, rebuild with
> CONFIG_USER_RESOURCE=y
> VE start failed
> VE is unmounted
> 
> 
> So I see 3 problems here:
> 1st. vzquota segfaults. Not really bad, but looks dirty a bit.
> 2nd. vzctl says something about CONFIG_USER_RESOURCE which is no longer
> used as I can see (It's absent in any Kconfig, but still used in tcp
> code patched with openvz patch)
> 3d. Finally 32bit userspace doesn't work with 64bit kernel. That's
> terrible %)
> 
> Am I right? How should I submit it to bugzilla? 3 different bugs or a
> single one?
> 


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