docs: clarify that vmdb2 does not support containers

Signed-off-by: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
Sponsored-by: author

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/vmdb2.md b/vmdb2.md
index 4b2372d..23dfbf1 100644
--- a/vmdb2.md
+++ b/vmdb2.md
@@ -140,6 +140,13 @@ Due to the kinds of things vmdb2 does (such as mounting, creating
 device nodes, etc), it needs to be run using root privileges. For the
 same reason, it probably can't be run in an unprivileged container.
 
+Running vmdb2 in a container, privileged or not, is not supported. If
+it works, that is a happy accident. There are no tests to make sure
+that works, however, and no patches to make vmdb2 work in a container
+will be considered for merging. This is because vmdb2 is maintained by
+Lars, who has no use for containers, and does not want the maintenance
+burden of having code that supports that.
+
 
 ## Setting the hostname