[libvirt] [PATCH v2 18/18] LXC: added some doc on domxml-from-native with mention of limitations

--- docs/drvlxc.html.in | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/drvlxc.html.in b/docs/drvlxc.html.in index 0f3efb0..7f73084 100644 --- a/docs/drvlxc.html.in +++ b/docs/drvlxc.html.in @@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ and LXC. For further details about usage of virsh consult its manual page. </p> -<h3><a name="usageSave">Defining (saving) container configuration></a></h3> +<h3><a name="usageSave">Defining (saving) container configuration</a></h3> <p> The <code>virsh define</code> command takes an XML configuration @@ -702,5 +702,37 @@ host # virt-top -c lxc:/// </pre> +<h3><a name="usageConvert">Converting LXC container configuration</a></h3> + +<p> +The <code>virsh domxml-from-native</code> command can be used to convert +most of the LXC container configuration into a domain XML fragment +</p> + +<pre> +# virsh -c lxc:/// domxml-from-native lxc /var/lib/lxc/myguest/config +</pre> + +<p> +This conversion has some limitations due to the fact that the +domxml-from-native command output has to be independent of the host. Here +are a few things to take care of before converting: +</p> + +<ul> +<li> +Replace the fstab file referenced by <tt>lxc.mount</tt> by the corresponding +lxc.mount.entry lines. +</li> +<li> +Replace all relative sizes of tmpfs mount entries to absolute sizes. Also +make sure that tmpfs entries all have a size option (default is 50%). +</li> +<li> +Define <tt>lxc.cgroup.memory.limit_in_bytes</tt> to properly limit the memory +available to the container. The conversion will use 64MiB as the default. +</li> +</ul> + </body> </html> -- 1.8.5.2