[lxc-devel] free/unfreeze support in lxc command

[Stéphane Graber]

We hide a few commands that we don't expect the average user to use.

That's the case of things like "lxc init", "lxc pause" and "lxc monitor".

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 07:52:30AM +0900, Hiroaki Nakamura wrote:
> Thanks for your comment.
> Could you tell me why "lxc pause" is a hidden command?
> 
> 2016-05-19 7:42 GMT+09:00 Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com>:
> > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 07:33:53AM +0900, Hiroaki Nakamura wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am creating the lxd_container module for Ansible.
> >> https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/pull/2208#issuecomment-220122327
> >>
> >> And I'm wondering I use the pylxd module or the lxc command.
> >> Actually I created the both version.
> >>
> >> A. An implementation using the pylxd module.
> >> https://github.com/hnakamur/ansible-modules-extras/blob/lxd_container/cloud/lxd/lxd_container.py
> >>
> >> B. An implementation using the lxc command.
> >> https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/pull/2208#issuecomment-219968885
> >>
> >> I think I prefer B because it's simpler for common cases like
> >> launching a container
> >> using a remote standard image.
> >>
> >> However I could not found the way to freeze/unfreeze a container using
> >> the lxc command.
> >> Is there a way to freeze/unfreeze using the lxc command?
> >> If not, could you tell me why?
> >> Is the frozen state deprecated?
> >
> > It's "lxc pause" and "lxc start".
> >
> > Pause is a hidden command, so you need to do "lxc help --all" to have it
> > listed in the help.
> >
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Hiroaki
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