[lxc-users] Do nested containers require that unprivileged container creation be supported?

[Nels Nelson]

Greetings gentleusers and gentledevelopers,-

Okay, so the Fedora 20 discussion aside, please consider this:

# lxc-create -n outer -t minimal
# lxc-start -n outer -- bash
bash: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device
bash: no job control in this shell
bash-4.2# lxc-create -n inner -t minimal
lxc-create: No such file or directory - failed to create container path for
inner
lxc-create: Error creating container inner
bash-4.2# ls /lib/var
ls: cannot access /lib/var: No such file or directory
bash-4.2# ls /var/lib
empty
bash-4.2# mkdir /var/lib/lxc
bash-4.2# ls /var/lib
empty  lxc
bash-4.2# ls /var/lib/lxc
bash-4.2# lxc-create -n inner -t minimal
bash-4.2# ls /var/lib/lxc
inner
bash-4.2# lxc-ls
inner

So, from this, it can be seen that the error I was experiencing had
nothing to do with namespace capability of the operating system being
used.

Instead, it was because for some reason, /var/lib/lxc does not exist
inside the container "outer".

My question is, is this a bug?  Should lxc-create go ahead and create
the necessary parent lxc directory when creating the "inner" container?
Or is this strictly the responsibility of the creator of "outer"?

Thanks,
-Nels
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