[lxc-users] LXC auto start not working
Stéphane Graber
stgraber at ubuntu.com
Mon Jun 9 15:34:01 UTC 2014
On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 11:30:38AM -0400, Shidan wrote:
> BTW, I'm trying this in ubuntu 14.04. This is my lxc-ls output after
> running lxc-autostart as the user that owns the container:
>
> NAME STATE IPV4 IPV6 AUTOSTART
> --------------------------------------
> test1 STOPPED - - NO
>
> So given that I put this:
>
> lxc.start.auto = 1
> lxc.start.delay = 5
>
> In ~/.config/lxc/default.conf and I have rebooted the machine, is there
> anything else I should be doing to get lxc-autostart working?
default.conf is only used at the base config for new containers.
Changing it will have no effect to existing containers.
So you should edit ~/.local/share/lxc/test1/config and add those two
lines in there, then the container will show up as auto-started in
lxc-ls and lxc-autostart will work.
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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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> > > > mhw at WittsEnd.com
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