[lxc-users] Detailed LXD documentation?

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Tycho Andersen (tycho.andersen at canonical.com):
> On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 11:02:28AM +0300, Ozan Hazer wrote:
> > Hi... I'm setting up a new server and decided to use LXD for LXC management
> > but I'm not sure if it's too early for that...
> > The OS is ubuntu 15.04 and I don't have LXC experience, I just read some...
> > 
> > I created a container with this:
> > 
> > lxd-images import lxc ubuntu trusty amd64 --alias ubuntu
> > lxc launch ubuntu atlassian
> > 
> > I'd expect to see /var/lib/lxc/atlassian but the /var/lib/lxc directory is
> > empty.
> 
> The lxcpath LXD uses is /var/lib/lxd/lxc.
> 
> > I also can see the container running if I run lxc list:
> > 
> > +-----------+---------+------------+------+-----------+
> > |   NAME    |  STATE  |    IPV4    | IPV6 | EPHEMERAL |
> > +-----------+---------+------------+------+-----------+
> > | atlassian | RUNNING | 10.0.3.148 |      | NO        |
> > +-----------+---------+------------+------+-----------+
> > 
> > however lxc-ls doesn't print out anything.
> 
> > Am I doing smt. wrong or missing some point? Also I'd be glad if you could
> > point me to some useful documentation about this...
> 
> The lxc-* tools are replaced entirely by the lxc frontend to lxd. You
> can mix them (although it's not recommended) by passing the right
> lxcpath to the lxc-* tools if you want, though.

You can only mix a few, namely the ones which don't require a config,
since the configuration is stored in the lxd.db.  So i think it's safer
to just say you can't mix them.

> > What I'm trying to do is to run Jira installer inside a container. I tried
> > 
> > lxc file push atlassian-jira-6.4.3-x64.bin
> > atlassian/tmp/atlassian-jira-6.4.3-x64.bin
> > lxc exec atlassian /atlassian-jira-6.4.3-x64.bin
> > 
> > Obviously it complained about permissions, tried to give exec permissions
> > without luck. I created the container with root, is this some apparmor
> > thing or other security counter measures?
> 
> Can you paste exactly the steps you took and the error messages you
> got?
> 
> Tycho
> 
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > M.Ozan Hazer
> 
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