[Lxc-users] Cleaning up veth when not destroying the usual way

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Robin Monjo (appldiget) (robin.monjo at applidget.com):
> 
> On Apr 24, 2013, at 3:53 PM, Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> > It would be far preferable to bind-mount /containers onto
> > /var/lib/lxc and set the containers up there.  If you're
> > willing to do that and test it, then I'll happily look at
> > the config files you are using and try to reproduce.
> 
> My setup is already quite complex:
> - I mount (aufs) a base container root to /container
> - I bind mount a /app folder inside all containers I create so they have a common folder
> 
> I would prefer to avoid bind mount again another folder. I checked the source of lxc-destroy, in master there is a way to specify the root of the container to destroy. However, I couldn't see any "ifconfig" cleanup done during lxc-destroy...

the container netifs are created at lxc-start and destroyed at lxc-stop.
You should not be manually creating the nics in advance, and lxc-destroy
does not remove them.