[lxc-users] lxc-ls question

[Kevin Wilson]

Thanks, Stephane,

I just want to let you know that
./configure --disable-python --prefix=/test --with-config-path=/test/var/lib/lxc
and then
lxc-create -n mybb -t busybox
and
lxc-ls
does show it the container I created

regards,
Kevin

On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 09:59:16PM +0200, Kevin Wilson wrote:
>> Hello,
>> My question is about lxc.1.0:
>>
>> I want first to verify that my understanding is correct:
>> lxc-ls, which is a python script, is created both when using
>> --enable-python and when not using --enable-python in ./configure.
>> And in fact, --enable-python is not needed so that it will work.
>>
>> Please let me know if I am correct in this (and I would appreciate if
>> somebody will elaborate about what is --enable-python for).
>>
>> Second, I have a Fedora 20 x86_64 machine on which docker is
>> installed; as part of
>> docker rpm installation, it installs lxc 0.9.
>>
>> I want to do tests with lxc-1.0 on this machine without
>> removing docker, so I had installed lxc-1.0 from the tar file
>> from http://linuxcontainers.org/downloads/
>>
>> I had run this:
>> ./configure --enable-python  --prefix=/test
>> make && make install
>> export PATH=/test/bin:$PATH
>> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/test/lib
>>
>> lxc-ls
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/test/bin/lxc-ls", line 31, in <module>
>>     import lxc
>> ImportError: No module named 'lxc'
>> I also tried without --enable-python (though it seems to me not needed at all):
>>
>> ./configure   --prefix=/test
>> make && make install
>> export PATH=/test/bin:$PATH
>> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/test/lib
>
> All options are enabled by default if the requirements for the option
> are met.
>
> Since you appear to have the python3 headers installed on your system,
> --enable-python or not, the result is the same and the configuration
> output at the end of the configure script should tell you as much.
>
> To disable python3 and instead get the shell lxc-ls replacement, you
> need to pass --disable-python to configure.
>
>>
>>
>> lxc-ls
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/test/bin/lxc-ls", line 31, in <module>
>>     import lxc
>> ImportError: No module named 'lxc'
>>
>> Any ideas ?
>> I would appreciate if somebody will test it on his machine (Ubunut/other) and
>> tell me it does work (and on which distro and the distro version)
>>
>> Kevin
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