#61690 - Failure to mount /sys in nested ‘guix shell’ container

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From: Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr>,
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Subject: Re: bug#61690: Failure to mount /sys in nested ‘guix shell’ container
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Hi Ludo,

Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> writes:

> The reason for this bug seems to be given here:
>
>   https://github.com/nestybox/sysbox/issues/67#issuecomment-726285026
>
> It’s not clear whether there’s anything we can do, other than
> recommending ‘-CN’ as well in the nested container.

Couldn't we always create a new network namespace, but when -N is passed
it also has a veth interface?  The one problem I can think of is that
we'd need to either create one veth per interface in the parent
namespace or let the user specify which interface should be shared.

Best,
-- 
Josselin Poiret

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#61690 Failure to mount /sys in nested ‘guix shell’ container