CentOS 7 VM can't start lxd-agent

LXC
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To reproduce:

lxc launch images:centos/7 centos-7 --vm
lxc exec centos-7 bash

Inside CentOS-7 VM:

yum install -y kernel-3.10.0-1160.6.1.el7.x86_64
echo GRUB_DEFAULT=0 >> /etc/grub2-efi.cfg
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/centos/grub.cfg
reboot

When rebooting

lxc console centos-7

It will display:

...
[FAILED] Failed to start LXD - agent - virtio-fs mount.
See 'systemctl status lxd-agent-virtiofs.service' for details.
...
[FAILED] Failed to start LXD - agent - 9p mount.
See 'systemctl status lxd-agent-9p.service' for details.
         Starting LXD - agent...
[FAILED] Failed to start LXD - agent.
See 'systemctl status lxd-agent.service' for details.
...

After the above, I can’ exec centos-7 again:

 lxc exec centos-7 bash
Error: Failed to connect to lxd-agent
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That’s normal, there is a reason why we’re shipping those images with the centosplus kernel :slight_smile:

The original 3.10 kernel does not support the interfaces needed for the agent.

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OK.

Thanks

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when it will be fixed?

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Probably never. It’s a decision made by the CentOS team, we don’t have any control over it and they don’t tend to enable new features in a stable release kernel.

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