Running docker in a mock chroot

[Daniel J Walsh]

On 11/05/2014 05:45 PM, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I haven't really tried, I only wanted to look at fig 1.0 currently in
> f21 updates-testing. So I --shell'ed inside my fedora-21-x86_64
> mock chroot after installing fig, and tried to start a docker daemon
> in the background but it failed.
>
>    # docker -d -H unix:///var/run/docker.sock &
>    2014/11/05 23:08:33 docker daemon: 1.3.0 c78088f/1.3.0; execdriver:
>    native; graphdriver:
>    [45f3a6fd] +job serveapi(unix:///var/run/docker.sock)
>    [error] attach_loopback.go:42 There are no more loopback devices available.
>    2014/11/05 23:08:33 loopback mounting failed
>
> If I need to use a VM, I will (any news for vagrant?) but I was
> wondering whether this was actually possible. I haven't looked in
> detail at how mock creates the chroots, and don't have time to dig
> at all these days.
>
> I was just wondering whether it was actually possible to run docker
> in a chroot, especially one built with mock!
>
> Cheers,
> Dridi
Probably missing /dev/loop* within mock chroot.  Otherthen this it
should probably work.