[lxc-users] LXC auto start not working

[Shidan]

I tried it both in the individual configuration files and the main one. I
actually can't get lxc-autostart to work even in a session as the user that
owns the container right now and lxc-ls is not recognizing the options in
the config file.


On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>
wrote:

> Stéphane,
>
> On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 10:12 -0400, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 10:07:05AM -0400, Shidan wrote:
> > > I now am trying to get an unprivilaged container to auto-start, I put
> the
> > > following in ~/.config/lxc/default.conf:
> > >
> > > lxc.start.auto = 1
> > > lxc.start.delay = 5
> > >
> > >
> > > I also tried putting it in the main /etc/lxc/default.conf file. For
> both
> > > cases it doesn't work and lxc-ls --fancy shows the autostart flag as
> NO.
>
> > For this to work, you need something to call "lxc-autostart" at session
> > open time. For privileged containers we have an init script doing that,
> > but for unprivileged users, there's no single way of doing it and it's
> > hard to know exactly what the user would want to see happen (have all
> > user containers started at boot time and exit at shutdown time or have
> > that happen at user session open time but then what about ssh sessions,
> > ...).
>
> I think there's also a problem in the way lxc-autostart is handling the
> -P option(s) that would complicate this for user based containers
> outside of the global lxcpath.  See my message over in the -devel list.
>
> Mike
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