[Lxc-users] Launch multiple apps in exactly on container

[Jue Hong]

BKW, you're right. Now we're going to use the method as you say.
But, being able to start apps outside is really convenient in some cases :)

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Brian K. White <brian at aljex.com> wrote:
> On 9/16/2010 3:36 AM, Jue Hong wrote:
>> As I understand, running one application with the command lxc-execute
>> will create a container instance. E.g., by running lxc-execute -n foo
>> /bin/bash, a container named foo will be created, and I can find a foo
>> directory under the mounted cgroup directory, like /dev/cgroup/foo.
>> While retype lxc-execute -n foo /bin/bash, I'm told that：lxc-execute:
>> Device or resource busy.
>>
>> Does it mean I cannot run multiple apps within exactly the same
>> container foo via using lxc-execute or lxc-start? Or what should I do
>> if it's possible?
>
> You can run essentially as many apps as you want inside a single
> container, you just can't start them from the outside.
>
> For a single service or app, run lxc-execute ... myapp
>
> For multiple services/apps, run lxc-start , which will run /sbin/init
> inside the container, and init starts up multiple services the same way
> a regular server does.
>
> You could do almost as much with lxc-execute.../bin/bash, but you do it
> from that shell, from inside the container, not by trying to run
> lxc-execute multiple times to create multiple processes.
>
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> bkw
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Jue Hong (洪爵)
Department of Network Infrastructure
Tencent Company, Shenzhen, China