[lxc-users] lxc state driver is not active

Serge Hallyn serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com
Mon Feb 17 23:07:00 UTC 2014


Quoting Tom Taylor (tom at tommyt.co.uk):
> So I've followed this tutorial on a vanilla CentOS 6.5 (x64) hardware
> install ... http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/LXC-on-CentOS6
> 
> 
> I'm getting the following error when trying to intialise the container ...
> # virt-install --connect lxc:/// --name dns --ram 512 --vcpu 1 --filesystem
> /srv/lxc/dns,/ --noautoconsole
> ERROR    internal error lxc state driver is not active

Please see the libvirt mailing list (libvir-list at redhat.com) as this
is an issue with libvirt (which has a separate lxc implementation from
the one which this mailing list dicusses).

Good luck.

> Does this howto miss a step somewhere?  Is something in the CentOS
> distribution broken?
> 
> # rpm -qa | egrep 'lxc|libvirt'
> lxc-0.9.0-2.el6.x86_64
> libvirt-python-0.10.2-29.el6_5.3.x86_64
> lxc-libs-0.9.0-2.el6.x86_64
> libvirt-client-0.10.2-29.el6_5.3.x86_64
> libvirt-0.10.2-29.el6_5.3.x86_64
> lxc-templates-0.9.0-2.el6.x86_64
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tom Taylor

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