[Lxc-users] Reboot from container

[John Drescher]

> Well, "fixed" is not fair as it implies anything was ever broken.
>
> LXC never claimed to provide a virtual reboot function in the first place.
> LXC is in many ways like chroot. And just like chroot, it's a low level
> tool that you build fancier things on top of. It runs processes in a
> namespace. It is not a full virtual hardware system like vmware. You
> build the fancier higher level stuff on top of that yourself, such as
> modifying the container init scripts fairly heavily to remove or modify
> the stuff that does not work or makes no sense in the context of a
> container. There is no boot loader or kernel or kernel modules for
> instance, so any init scripts that deal with those need to be removed or
> short circuited. And it's not lxc's job to do that, you have to.
> Arranging for the host system to stop & restart a container when the
> container requested a reboot was like that.
>
> Now LXC ships with a reboot service which is a great convenience and
> improvement, but it's not fair to to LXC to call this a fix.
>

I disagree. Trying to migrate from openvz (which has a working
reboot/shutdown inside the guest) to lxc this was one of the show
stopper bugs / features that prevented me from using lxc in a
production environment to replace openvz.

John