[Lxc-users] lxc-create and debian template

[Helmut Lichtenberg]

Daniel Lezcano schrieb am 04. Oct 2010 um 15:11:17 CEST:
> 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.

Agreed. Additionally you could enable the package installers to provide
distribution specific configs, e.g.:

/etc/lxc/defaults
/etc/lxc/defaults/defaults.generic  # fallback
/etc/lxc/defaults/defaults.debian
/etc/lxc/defaults/defaults.ubuntu
...

Helmut

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