On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 4:57 PM Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer@gmail.com> wrote:
On 1/30/21 1:00 PM, Gena Makhomed wrote:
> I can't use CentOS Stream - it is beta quality and has critical bugs.
> For example: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1913806


As far as I can tell:

systemd-nspawn is defaulting to a private user namespace, but no private
network namespace, and that combination is not supported. If you
configure a private network namespace, does that nspawn container start
properly?

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.nspawn.html#%5BNetwork%5D%20Section%20Options

I'm inferring some of this, so if you've already got private network
namespace configured, that's probably not the cause.

I'm not sure we've ever really looked at systemd-nspawn from a subscription service point of view.  For Docker and Podman, we've always viewed those containers as just processes running on the system (this is a notable difference from how VMs are viewed).  Containers inherit access to subscription services via the host they're on.  That's why UBI should see additional content available when it's running on a RHEL system as opposed to something like CentOS or Ubuntu.

The problem wouldn't be running systemd-nspawn content.  The problem would be getting the content into the container you're building though honestly I've never used nspawn and I'm not even sure what storage format it uses.

           -Mike