Compatibility of kvm-vmi with KVM-accelerated Linux containers (e.g., Dockur)

[julie-nga]

Hello, I was wondering if kvm-vmi can work with a monitored VM created with Dockur. Dockur automates Windows installation inside a Docker container using KVM and QEMU, and here is what I get from docker ps:

ju@ju-virtual-machine:~/Desktop$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE             COMMAND                  CREATED          STATUS          PORTS                                                   NAMES
21865c18e35c   dockurr/windows   "/usr/bin/tini -s /r…"   18 minutes ago   Up 18 minutes   3389/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8006->8006/tcp, [::]:8006->8006/tcp   windows

And the related qemu-system-x86_64 process:

ju@ju-virtual-machine:~/Desktop$ ps -eo pid,cmd | grep -E 'qemu-system|qemu-kvm' | grep -v grep
   3283 qemu-system-x86_64 -nodefaults -cpu host,kvm=on,l3-cache=on,+hypervisor,migratable=no,-vmx -smp 2,sockets=1,dies=1,cores=2,threads=1 -m 4G -machine type=q35,smm=on,graphics=off,vmport=off,dump-guest-core=off,hpet=off,accel=kvm -enable-kvm -global kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=discard -smbios type=1,serial=VMware564d491d6cf426f7368f3c94cdd0c11c -display vnc=:0,websocket=5700 -vga virtio -monitor telnet:localhost:7100,server,nowait,nodelay -daemonize -D /run/shm/qemu.log -pidfile /run/shm/qemu.pid -name windows,process=windows,debug-threads=on -serial pty -device usb-ehci,id=ehci -device usb-tablet -netdev tap,id=hostnet0,ifname=qemu,script=no,downscript=no -device virtio-net-pci,id=net0,netdev=hostnet0,romfile=,mac=02:3F:46:5C:76:7E -drive file=/storage/data.img,id=data3,format=raw,cache=none,aio=native,discard=on,detect-zeroes=on,if=none -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=data3,bus=pcie.0,addr=0xa,iothread=io2,bootindex=3 -object iothread,id=io2 -rtc base=localtime -global ICH9-LPC.disable_s3=1 -global ICH9-LPC.disable_s4=1 -object rng-random,id=objrng0,filename=/dev/urandom -device virtio-rng-pci,rng=objrng0,id=rng0,bus=pcie.0 -global q35-pcihost.x-pci-hole64-fix=false

How would I connect to such a VM to run something like vmi-win-guid name winxp /tmp/introspector ?

NB: I would do the (Bare-metal setup) in a nested virtualization environment on VMware.

[ohault]

@julie-nga I suggest to generalise the title of this issue to Linux containers using KVM acceleration because the use case you introduced is I guess larger that only when using Dockur Docker containers.