[lxc-devel] How to get details of Host System

[Stéphane Graber]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:08:06AM -0400, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 11:11:30AM +0530, Devendrasing Patil wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am a kind of noob user for lxc.
> > 
> > 
> > I wanted to know how do i get details of the server on which my lxc
> > container has been hosted. What i meant is : On my Ubuntu Server (13.04), I
> > have created a container X. Now from container X, how do i get name of my
> > ubuntu server on which it has been created?
> 
> You can't. LXC's goal is to make the container feel like an entirely
> seperate system, so unless you pass that kind of information from the
> host to the container on purpose (say as a text file created at creation
> time or through a hook), there isn't a good way to get much information
> about the host from the container.

Just noticed that you cross-posted on all our mailing-lists
(cgmanager-devel, lxc-devel, lxc-users), please don't do that...

The relevant mailing-list for that kind of question is lxc-users.

-- 
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.ubuntu.com
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