[lxc-users] Installing lxc 1.0 to a non default location

[Stéphane Graber]

On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 10:34:49PM +0200, Kevin Wilson wrote:
> Hello,
> I am trying to install lxc-1.0 to /test/var/lib/lxc.
> I want that the containers will be created under /test/var/lib/lxc
> 
> So:
> ./configure --with-config-path=/test/var/lib/lxc
> make && make install
> 
> and indeed
> lxc-create -n mybusybox -t busybox
> created it under
> /test/var/lib/lxc/
> 
> However, lxc-ls does not show it (it shows the containers under /var/lib/lxc).
> Is there some way with ./configure to set the path that lxc-ls will look
> in so that it will be different than /var/lib/lxc?

So based on your previous post, I'm going to assume that this LXC was
built with python3 and that you manually installed an older version of
python3-lxc from a package to resolve the stacktrace.

That latter action is very likely to be the problem there as that
package you installed probably contains the hardcoded /var/lib/lxc path.

Instead of installing this external package to workaround the
stacktrace, you should instead either build without python
(--disable-python) or properly set the python path so that it finds the
module (PYTHONPATH=/test or something like that).


I did a quick check and both the python and shell version of lxc-ls in
1.0 use lxc's global config to get the default container path.
That global config will either return the value of lxc.lxcpath set in
/etc/lxc/lxc.conf (or wherever the config files end up with your config)
or will default to the value passed with --with-config-path.

So your problem is likely some kind of conflict between two versions of
LXC on your system or an invalid config file somewhere.

> 
> regards,
> Kevin
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-- 
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
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