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

Serge Hallyn serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com
Mon Apr 7 17:59:16 UTC 2014


Quoting Nels Nelson (nels.n.nelson at gmail.com):
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com>wrote:
> 
> > Since we allow you to specify an arbitrary lxcpath, we don't want
> > to create the lxcpath
> 
> 
> Sounds good to me, Serge.  However, if a lxcpath is not specified by the
> user, and
> the default lxcpath does not already exist, would it be okay to
> automatically create
> the path in that case?  In this case, /lib/var/lxc is the path with did not
> exist.
> 
> -Nels

Yeah I thought about that as I was replying...  it seems valid and
useful, i.e. if admin edits /etc/lxc/lxc.conf to change the lxcpath.
OTOH it's an extra complication in the code to break when someone
changes the configure.ac variable names...  But I'd probably ack a
patch to do it.

thanks,
-serge


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