[Lxc-users] lxc-create and debian template

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 10/04/2010 02:54 PM, Helmut Lichtenberg wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> Daniel Lezcano schrieb am 04. Oct 2010 um 14:45:33 CEST:
>> actually the configuration file passed to lxc-debian is supposed to be
>> concatenate with the default specified in the template.
>> I admit that can look weird :)
>
> it's not a real problem for me, but maybe it's a (design) problem of
> separating the scripts and the definition of (default) values. On the long
> term, it is not the best way to urge the user to look into the source to find
> the defaults.
>
> And what happens, if you have conflicting options?

I agree with this point, I think that should be changed.

What I have in mind is to modify the distro package installation, the 
ubuntu one for the moment, in order to ask for a default network 
virtualization installation, macvlan or bridge + veth. The script will 
be in charge to configure the system with the bridge and store the 
information in /etc/lxc-default.conf (or whatever). The template will 
use the information stored in this file to complete the configuration 
for the container. In case the configuration is specified to lxc-create, 
then this one will replace the default provided by the template.

That will make the host and the container more consistent and will 
satisfy the people complaining they have to configure the network 
themselves for the host. As that will be the package installer which 
will be in charge of that, lxc does not have to care about what kind of 
distros it is running on.