[lxc-users] Problems with lxc-create

[wisdomlight at protonmail.com]

Jan
It worked as you said.
Cheers.

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On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 21:06, Jan Kowalsky <jankow at datenkollektiv.net> wrote:

> Hi Sherab,
>
> Am 19.04.19 um 21:12 schrieb wisdomlight at protonmail.com:
>> Hi
>> below is my attempt to create a container - mycontainer
>> I don't know what it all means.
>>
>> help please
>>
>>> sherab at sherab-Librem-13-v2:~$ lxc-create -n mycontainer -t ubuntu
>
> it looks like you try to create a unprivileged container as a non root
> user.
>
> This is possible, but:
>
> you need
>
> 1.) a special template
> 2.) a uidmap configuration and some other prerequisites.
>
>>> lxc-create: mycontainer: parse.c: lxc_file_for_each_line_mmap: 100 No such file or directory - Failed to open file "/home/sherab/.config/lxc/default.conf"
>>> lxc-create: mycontainer: conf.c: chown_mapped_root: 3126 No uid mapping for container root
>>> lxc-create: mycontainer: lxccontainer.c: do_storage_create: 1288 Error chowning "/home/sherab/.local/share/lxc/mycontainer/rootfs" to container root
>>> lxc-create: mycontainer: conf.c: suggest_default_idmap: 4738 You must either run as root, or define uid mappings
>>> lxc-create: mycontainer: conf.c: suggest_default_idmap: 4739 To pass uid mappings to lxc-create, you could create
>>> lxc-create: mycontainer: conf.c: suggest_default_idmap: 4740 ~/.config/lxc/default.conf:
>>> lxc-create: mycontainer: conf.c: suggest_default_idmap: 4741 lxc.include = /etc/lxc/default.conf
>>> lxc-create: mycontainer: conf.c: suggest_default_idmap: 4742 lxc.idmap = u 0 100000 65536
>>> lxc-create: mycontainer: conf.c: suggest_default_idmap: 4743 lxc.idmap = g 0 100000 65536
>>> lxc-create: mycontainer: lxccontainer.c: do_lxcapi_create: 1869 Failed to create (none) storage for mycontainer
>>> lxc-create: mycontainer: tools/lxc_create.c: main: 327 Failed to create container mycontainer
>
> look here:
> https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/getting-started/
>
> https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-create-unprivileged-linux-containers-on-ubuntu-linux/
>
> Or just run
>
> sudo lxc-create -n mycontainer -t ubuntu
>
> for privileged containers.
>
> Best regards
> Jan
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