[Users] How to determine a container from the filesystem?

[Brad Alexander]

Thanks Kir.

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Kir Kolyshkin <kir at openvz.org> wrote:
> On 04/14/2012 12:07 AM, Brad Alexander wrote:
>>
>> I just found out through the proxmox-ve forums that running ntp on a
>> container is considered a Bad Thing.
>
>
> Not necessarily. In fact, it's a good thing to run ntpd inside a container,
> it's just you need to
>
> 1. Have only ONE container doing that.

So that one container can be Container 0 (the HN)?

> 2. Grant that container sys_time capability, so it will be able to set
> system time.

Perhaps I misunderstood the sys_time flag, it was my understanding
that it was better to turn off ntp on the containers, make sure it is
on in container 0 (the hardware node), then turn on sys_time on the
remaining containers.

> This is because time is not virtualized, ie all the containers share the
> same time (because indeed there's only one time -- time zones of course can
> be different).

Thanks,
--b