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docs:lxc [2014-07-06 11:45] – typo glendocs:lxc [2016-08-21 00:36] (current) – [LXC - Linux Container Tools] glen
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 ====== LXC - Linux Container Tools ====== ====== LXC - Linux Container Tools ======
  
-LXC is a tool to create and manage containers. It contains a full featured container with the isolation / virtualization of the pids, the ipc, the utsname, the mount points, /proc, /sys, the network and it takes into account the control groups. It is very light, flexible, and provides a set of tools around the container like the monitoring with asynchronous events notification, or the freeze of the container. This package is useful to create Virtual Private Server, or to run isolated applications like bash or sshd. +[[https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/|LXC]] is a tool to create and manage containers. It contains a full featured container with the isolation / virtualization of the pids, the ipc, the utsname, the mount points, /proc, /sys, the network and it takes into account the control groups. It is very light, flexible, and provides a set of tools around the container like the monitoring with asynchronous events notification, or the freeze of the container. This package is useful to create Virtual Private Server, or to run isolated applications like bash or sshd.  
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 +LXC is pretty low level, very flexible and covers just about every containment feature supported by the upstream kernel. For a completely fresh and intuitive user experience with a single command line tool to manage your containers see [[LXD]].  
  
 **Resources** **Resources**
-  * [[http://linuxcontainers.org/|LXC Project homepage]] 
   * [[https://www.stgraber.org/2013/12/20/lxc-1-0-blog-post-series/|LXC 1.0 blog post series]] - must read to get quick overview what's out there   * [[https://www.stgraber.org/2013/12/20/lxc-1-0-blog-post-series/|LXC 1.0 blog post series]] - must read to get quick overview what's out there
   * [[http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers|Linux Containers mailing list]]   * [[http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers|Linux Containers mailing list]]
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   * http://www.paul.sladen.org/vserver/archives/201402/0015.html   * http://www.paul.sladen.org/vserver/archives/201402/0015.html
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 ===== Guest creation ===== ===== Guest creation =====
  
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 ===== Common problems / Useful tricks ===== ===== Common problems / Useful tricks =====
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 +==== lxc-start has no output ====
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 +In case ''lxc-start -n test'' produces no output, ensure /dev/console is present in guest filesystem.
  
 ==== lxc-stop is not graceful ==== ==== lxc-stop is not graceful ====
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   - you can't filter guest straffic  from host's firewall   - you can't filter guest straffic  from host's firewall
   - host can use seme default interface with and without guests running.   - host can use seme default interface with and without guests running.
-  - you HAVE to set mac. If not - on every container start you'll have different one (your router will not pass the traffic)+  - one have better to set static MAC address. If not - on every container start you'll have different MAC generated and your router may have problems with passing  traffic. 
-  - iptables is initialized from lxc.hook.pre-mount hook (ran in the container's namespace and having macvlan interface visible)+  - iptables is initialized from lxc.hook.pre-mount hook (ran in the container's namespace and having guest macvlan interface visible)
  
 first boot with ''hwaddr'' line disabled, look what the random address was assigned, set it in config. first boot with ''hwaddr'' line disabled, look what the random address was assigned, set it in config.
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