[Lxc-users] How to start the network services so as to get the IP address using lxc-execute???

[Ramez Hanna]

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 12:33 PM, nishant mungse <nishantmungse at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to manually invoke a networking setup to start the network service to
> get the IP address of container , But the problem is i don't want to start
> the container and want to use lxc-execute.
>
> When I tried these things happened::
>
> command :: lxc-execute -n base -f /home/nishant/ubuntu.conf
> /var/lib/lxc/base1/rootfs/etc/init.d/networking start
>
> O/P
>
> Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
> utility, e.g. service networking start
>
> Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
> Upstart job, you may also use the start(8) utility, e.g. start networking
> start: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket
> /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused
>
>
> How to start the network services so as to get the IP addresses of
> containers?
>
>
> Regards,
> Nishant
>
>
>
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looks like the upstart scripts need upstart to be running!
you could use a different script to start the networking say from a sysv init
but I am not sure that with execute you will get the networking
stack/isolation  available

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