Usb passthrough to iocage jail

vambier

Cadet
Joined
Aug 20, 2018
Messages
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I am trying to get a Aeotec Z-Stick Gen5 stick to work on Domoticz in an iocage jail.
The device is recognized in freenas as /dev/cuaU0, but is not visible in the jail.
If I understand correctly I have to unhide the device in /etc/devfs.rules. Since this file gets overwritten after each reboot I added the following script which runs at postinit:

Code:
#!/bin/sh

cat >>/etc/devfs.rules << 'EOF'

[devfsrules_common=44]
add include $devfsrules_hide_all
add include $devfsrules_unhide_basic
add include $devfsrules_unhide_login
add include $devfsrules_jail
add path 'cua*' unhide

EOF

service devfs restart


When I run devfs rule -s 44 show I get the following output:

Code:
100 include 1
200 include 2
300 include 3
400 include 4
500 path cua* unhide


This indicates that the rules are set correctly.

In the freenas GUI I set the devfs_ruleset to 44, this is the id of my custom ruleset. I also enabled mount_devfs, allow_mount and allow_mount_devfs.

When I start the jail from the commandline I get the warning Domoticz is not using the devfs_ruleset of 4, not generating a ruleset for the jail, DHCP may not work.
The device is not visible so it seems that my custom rules are not being used. Some say that you have to add the following to /etc/rc.conf :

Code:
devfs_enable="YES"
devfs_system_ruleset="devfsrules_common"


But this also doesn't work, I also added it to my init script so that it is always added after reboot, but it still doesn't work.

The strange thing is, when I set the devfs_ruleset to 3 (1 to 4 are default rules defined in /etc/defaults/devfs.rules) which exposes all devices to the jail I can see my device just fine and can use it in Domoticz, but now all other devices are visible too in my jail.

Does anyone have an idea why this doesn't work? All the documentation shows that this is the way it should work, add a custom ruleset and make sure the jail uses that ruleset. But it seems that my custom rules are unknown to the iocage jail.
 
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dlavigne

Guest
Were you able to resolve this? If not, which FreeNAS version?
 

vambier

Cadet
Joined
Aug 20, 2018
Messages
6
No I haven't resolved it yet, I set the devfs_ruleset to 3 for now so I can at least configure my domoticz installation.

I'm using FreeNAS-11.2-U7, the jail is 11.2-RELEASE-p8
 
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