Configure the Firecracker jailer to place the microVM in a cgroup v2 hierarchy (--cgroup-version 2)

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Documented steps

  1. Select the cgroup hierarchy with --cgroup-version, value '1' (default) or '2'. Pass --cgroup-version 2 to use the unified cgroup v2 controller.
  2. When you also pass --cgroup flags with version 2, the jailer creates a new cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/<parent>/<id> and writes the flags there.
  3. Alternatively, with no --cgroup flags and --cgroup-version 2, the jailer does NOT create a cgroup; it moves the process to the existing --parent-cgroup if present.
  4. Use the parent-cgroup move behavior when you want to pre-configure cgroup subtree_control yourself and just relocate the microVM into it.

Known gotchas

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