[lxc-devel] Configuration question?
Daniel Lezcano
daniel.lezcano at free.fr
Tue Jan 26 20:18:35 UTC 2010
Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> I'm working on some scripts and I have a configuration question. Yes I
> could probably read the code and figure out the answers for myself or
> just blindly try it but I figure if I ask here someone could say "no
> don't do that" or "hey that's not a bad idea" before I go charging
> ahead.
>
> Put simply... Is is possible / permissible to add configuration
> variables to the config file? I've been converting containers over from
> OpenVZ and there's some odd flags and values I would like to stuff in
> there. Things like "ONBOOT" and "DESCRIPTION" from the OpenVZ file. Is
> lxc-start and friends just going to ignore extraneous (to them)
> configuration options or are they going to complain or blow chunks?
It will complain.
> If it's possible, is there a convention you would like followed. I'm
> thinking along this lines of this for those two examples:
>
> lxc.onboot = yes|no [default no]
> lxc.description = "Arbitrary String"
>
> Yes? No? Maybe? Hell no?
I am not sure to understand. Can you elaborate a bit ?
Do you want to define some environment variables for the container via
the lxc configuration file ? Or are these configuration variables
specific (I don't know OpenVZ except by its name) ?
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