[lxc-users] LXC auto start not working

[Stéphane Graber]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 10:57:13AM -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 10:46 -0400, Shidan wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Yeah, I strongly suspect you're not going to get lxc-autostart to work
> in a session due to what I found yesterday.  Stéphane and I are going to
> have to work something out, especially if I work on some changes to how
> lxcpath is parsed and managed, but that's all going to be a ways off.
> IAC, I think it's broken outside of using the host global lxcpath right
> now.

As I said earlier, I believe those are two entirely separate problems...

lxc-autostart as an unprivileged user itself works great:

stgraber at dakara:~$ lxc-ls -f
NAME           STATE    IPV4  IPV6  GROUPS  AUTOSTART  
-----------------------------------------------------
nsec-internet  STOPPED  -     -     a, d    NO         
precise-gui    STOPPED  -     -     -       NO         
utopic         STOPPED  -     -     -       YES        

stgraber at dakara:~$ lxc-autostart

stgraber at dakara:~$ lxc-ls -f
NAME           STATE    IPV4  IPV6  GROUPS  AUTOSTART  
-----------------------------------------------------
nsec-internet  STOPPED  -     -     a, d    NO         
precise-gui    STOPPED  -     -     -       NO         
utopic         RUNNING  -     -     -       YES        
stgraber at dakara:~$ 



> 
> Regards,
> Mike
> 
> > 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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