<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Check out toft: <a href="https://github.com/exceedhl/toft">https://github.com/exceedhl/toft</a>. It provides rpm and deb packages which already handles the dependencies on centos and ubuntu. Moreover, it packages the bind and dhcp setup on the host machine and ships with pre-created images, saves a lot of time of hassling around these issues.<div><br><div><div>On Nov 4, 2011, at 7:33 PM, Alex Eagar wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I would like to use LXC on Ubuntu 11.10, but there are a few points<br>that I'm having a hard time figuring out. I have been reading<br>documentation, but it's a bit spread out and differs a bit from site<br>to site.<br><br>Please share your opinion and perspective about the dependencies and<br>recommends of the LXC package in Ubuntu, particularly what you can<br>imagine the use cases would be for installing or not installing<br>recommended packages.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">From Aptitude on Ubuntu amd64 11.10<br></blockquote><br>lxc<br>- Depends (2)<br>-- libc6 (>= 2.8)<br>-- libcap (>= 2.10)<br>- Recommends (3)<br>-- cgroup-lite | cgroup-bin<br>-- debootstrap<br>-- libcap2-bin<br><br>cgroup-bin<br>- Depends (3)<br>-- libc6 (>= 2.7)<br>-- libcgroup1<br>-- upstart-job<br><br>cgroup-lite<br>- Depends (1)<br>-- upstart-job<br>- Conflicts<br>-- cgroup-bin<br><br><blockquote type="cite">From my perspective, having only read about LXC, it seems like libcap<br></blockquote>and libcgroup1 should be dependencies of LXC while libcap2-bin and<br>cgroup-bin should be recommends of LXC. No offence to the creator of<br>cgroup-lite, but from my limited perspective it seems like<br>uninstalling LXC is a better solution than using cgroup-lite.<br><br>Description of cgroup-lite.<br><a href="http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/packages/show/365681">http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/packages/show/365681</a><br><br>Rational behind cgroup-lite.<br>https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libcgroup/+bug/829628<br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>RSA(R) Conference 2012<br>Save $700 by Nov 18<br>Register now<br>http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1<br>_______________________________________________<br>Lxc-users mailing list<br>Lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net<br>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>