[lxc-users] How to cancel lxc-autostart

[Harald Dunkel]

I am not familiar with Ubuntu's setup, but assuming it supports
sysv-init I would suggest to omit lxc in a dedicated run level.

If your default run level is 2 (specified in /etc/inittab), then
you could use update-rc.d to omit lxc in run level 3, e.g.

	# update-rc.d lxc start 20 2 4 5 . stop 20 0 1 3 6 .

This means lxc is started in run levels 2, 4 and 5, and
stopped in 0, 1, 3 and 6.

If you need to boot without starting the containers, then you
can choose run level 3 on the kernel command line at boot time,
e.g.
	linux /boot/vmlinuz root= ... quiet 3

grub2 allows you to modify the kernel command line before booting.
Using telinit you can change the run level at run time, e.g.
'telinit 2' to switch to run level 2 (to start your containers).


Hope this helps
Harri