Xscontainer

kiu

@stormi I tried to do it but I don't think I succeeded. Could you send me a more specific doc of what you are doing?

thanks

stormi

I think these are the steps that worked for me:

yum install xscontainer
yum install python2-pip --enablerepo=epel
pip2 install --upgrade "pip < 21"
pip2 install --upgrade "cryptography == 2.5"
pip2 install --upgrade "paramiko < 3"

As this is done outside a virtualenv (I've tried inside a virtualenv, but I think xscontainer runs stuff outside of it, so it didn't work), this will overwrite the contents of RPMs you installed, so, again, only for testing.

I also had to remove the former host key from the VM metadata:

 xe vm-param-remove uuid=... param-name=other-config param-key=xscontainer-sshhostkey

kiu

@stormi Thanks, I just tried that and it still doesn't work

stormi

Well, I tried it myself on a freshly installed pool, and this worked. Can you elaborate on what doesn't work?

kiu

@stormi I still have the same problem, the key does not want to install and asks me if I want to try again.

stormi

What's the exact error message?

kiu

@stormi

Would you like to push a pool-specific public SSH key into the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file of the specified VM and therefore authorize hosts in the pool to interact with the containers inside the VM?
Answer y/n: 
y
Attempting to push the public xscontainer key to USER@IP.
ID@IP's password: 
Success.
Attempting to refresh the state of the VM
Failure diagnosis: Unable to find ncat inside the VM. Please install ncat. 
Do you wish to retry?
Answer y/n:

kiu

My server is up to date

stormi

It's not the same error. Your VM is missing a required package : ncat, as the error message says.

kiu

@stormi My bad. Ok I installed the nmap-ncat package under rockylinux and works perfectly now Thank you