[Lxc-users] Is "lxc-create -n foo" supposed to work?

[Papp Tamas]

On 01/24/2013 05:47 AM, Dan Kegel wrote:
>
> On ubuntu 12.04, I tried the minimalist command
>     sudo lxc-create -n foo
> without a -t option.  This completed very quickly (yay) but then
>     sudo lxc-start -n foo
> hung (after complaining there was no fstab.old or something).
>
> Is that supposed to work?
>
> In the meantime, i'm using
>    sudo lxc-create -n foo -t ubuntu
> That's a lot slower, but at least it works.

'lxc-create -n foo' is pointless. Actually I think it should return with a non-zero exit code.

If you have an lxc config file, you can create a real container:

lxc-create -n foo -f config

Or you can create a specific (eg. ubuntu precice, debian squeeze, fedora...etc) container with the 
-t switch, which invokes a wrapper script, that makes a number of changes on the filesystem, like 
debootstrap, create config, setup a default user in the container.


tamas