[Lxc-users] LXC support on Vagrant

[Dan Kegel]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>  https://www.stgraber.org/2012/09/28/introducing-the-python-lxc-api/
> Well the API is our preferred way for external apps to interface with lxc.
...
>> - libvirt
...
>> I suppose it would be foolish to assume that a common api would
>> always be better than having each high-level virtualization package
>> roll its own lxc support, but... still... is it worth providing a ruby binding
>> for the lxc api, and having vagrant use that?  Or would that simply be extra
>> overhead?
>
> I think that would definately be worth it.  (Right now it's using
> the lxc command line tools instead.)  But someone who writes ruby
> would have to export it :)

Likewise, libvirt has rolled their own (presumably C) binding to lxc stuff.

It would be interesting to see how those lxc wrappers compare,
and whether a consensus api that makes everybody happy
would fall out of that comparison.  (Wish I had time to hack.)
- Dan