[lxc-users] clarification

[Worth Spending]

I thought this was the case as I assumed "lxc-" commands were legacy.  
All I was looking for was a conformation.  Sorry I asked.


On 08/11/2016 07:24 PM, Sean McNamara wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 8:12 PM, Worth Spending <worthspending at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm currently reading thru the documentation at: https://linuxcontainers.org
>> to learn lxc.
>>
>> There seems to be multiple ways of running lxc commands.
>>
>> lxc-start, lxc-stop, lxc-attach, lxc-ls
>
> The "hyphenated" commands are from the "legacy" LXC command line interface.
>
>
>> or lxc with sub commands.
>>
>> lxc start
>>
>> lxc stop
>>
>> lxc list
> The "non-hyphenated" commands are for the **LXD** (D, not C) container
> hypervisor. This is a completely different product/application than
> LXC. The LXD client binary, `lxc`, is extremely unfortunately named
> and thus very confusing for new users, which has been discussed about
> 9000 times on this mailing list.
>
>
>
>
>> So, the question is: What is the current preferred usage for lxc commands?
>> hyphenated commands or lxc with sub commands?
>
> You need to look into the benefits and drawbacks of using either LXC
> or LXD (consider each one separately in terms of what it offers, how
> it's implemented, and how it's used) and make a decision. If you use
> the hyphenated LXC commands, any containers you create in that
> environment will be completely invisible to LXD, and vice versa. They
> each keep track of containers differently so LXD does not know about
> LXC containers and LXC does not know about LXD containers.
>
>
>> Thanks...
>>
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