[lxc-users] How to cancel lxc-autostart

[Tom Weber]

Everything is there already. Even in real world.
you could:
- define a run level for this purpose
- delay the autostart
- run your own script during bootup which asks you wether it should kick
off the lxc-autostart process or not - it might default to yes after a
timeout if no input occurs
- create your own script which would check the grub commandline for a
nolxcstartup parameter
...

there are plenty of ways which are way better than firing a bullet and
then requesting a feature to cancel it.
All of them are rather trivial to implement. Any professional admin to
host 300 containers should be able to do it. Yet you don't seem to even
have tried any of these solutions.

  Tom

Am Samstag, den 09.08.2014, 10:32 -0400 schrieb CDR:
> This is a philosophical divide. I live in the real world, and are
> successfully moving  all my business to LXC, or a combination of LXC
> and real virtualization, where you have a few virtual machines with
> hundreds of GBs of RAM and 36 or more cores, and these super-virtual
> machines act solely as container-of-containers. It means that my
> virtual machines have so many autostart containers, that it takes 30
> minutes to stop them all in a loop. When for some reason I need to
> start the machines and do not need all the containers starting, the
> only way is to boot in single-user mode. Why? There should be way to
> stop the storm in its tracks, like
> cat 0 > /proc/lxc/autostart
> this way I could quickly stop the few containers that had already started.
> I see a world coming where every living corporation will be using a
> combination of Virtualization plus LXC.
> Philip
> 
> 
> On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 8:27 AM, brian mullan <bmullan.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've been reading this thread and this is the first and only time I've ever
> > heard anyone request such a "kill all" command for LXC to terminate
> > auto-start.
> >
> > Developer time is always in short supply and IMHO asking one of them to
> > spend their time on such a "corner-case" issue is not putting their efforts
> > to good use.
> >
> > There have been 2 alternatives proposed that seem would handle this event
> > and my opinion is that should be sufficient.
> >
> > LXC 1.x has a lot of important work going on and I'd rather see people
> > focused on the existing roadmap or on addressing critical bugs.
> >
> > Of course its all Open Source so anyone that can't live without such a
> > feature could either contribute the patches themselves or offer a bounty to
> > have it done for them.
> >
> > again just my opinion
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
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