[lxc-devel] [PATCH] have systemd service call lxc-autostart via script

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Stéphane Graber (stgraber at ubuntu.com):
> On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 05:14:12PM -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> > Related to this...  Dwight and I have been bouncing a couple of things
> > back and forth and I noticed that lxc-autostart is being called from the
> > sysvinit scripts without the -a parameter.  That means that any
> > container in a non-null group will not be autostart on boot.  I feel
> > that's the wrong behavior.  If autoboot = 1 then it should be autobooted
> > on boot.  What you do after boot is up to you but I would expect it to
> > be "autoboot = 1" => "autobooted on bootup", not "autoboot = 1" =>
> > "autobooted on bootup if it's not in a group".
> 
> I can see why you'd auto-start both the null group and say a "boot"
> group, but I don't think we should auto-start them all.
> 
> A reason is that I use those groups as a way to easily start a group of
> interdependent containers, when I need those, I do "lxc-autostart -g
> blah" and all containers that have lxc.group = blah and lxc.start.auto =
> 1 will start properly sorted, with the right delays, ...). I however
> don't necessarily want those to start at boot.

And...  do you have containers in lxc.cgroup = blah which you do not
want to have started when you do lxc-autostart -g blah?