--- drvlxc-orig.html 2009-04-15 09:36:48.000000000 -0500 +++ drvlxc.html 2009-04-15 09:44:27.000000000 -0500 @@ -140,7 +140,89 @@ </div> <div id="content"> - <h1>LXC container driver</h1> +<h1>LXC container driver</h1> +<p> +The libvirt LXC driver manages "Linux Containers". Containers are sets of processes +with private namespaces which can (but don't always) look like separate machines, but +do not have their own OS. Here are two example configurations. The first is a very +light-weight "application container" which does not have it's own root image. You would +start it using +</p> + +<h3>Example config version 1</h3> +<p> +<pre> +&lt;domain type='lxc'&gt; + &lt;name&gt;vm1&lt;/name&gt; + &lt;memory&gt;500000&lt;/memory&gt; + &lt;os&gt; + &lt;type&gt;exe&lt;/type&gt; + &lt;init&gt;/bin/sh&lt;/init&gt; + &lt;/os&gt; + &lt;vcpu&gt;1&lt;/vcpu&gt; + &lt;clock offset='utc'/&gt; + &lt;on_poweroff&gt;destroy&lt;/on_poweroff&gt; + &lt;on_reboot&gt;restart&lt;/on_reboot&gt; + &lt;on_crash&gt;destroy&lt;/on_crash&gt; + &lt;devices&gt; + &lt;emulator&gt;/usr/libexec/libvirt_lxc&lt;/emulator&gt; + &lt;interface type='network'&gt; + &lt;source network='default'/&gt; + &lt;/interface&gt; + &lt;console type='pty' /&gt; + &lt;/devices&gt; +&lt;/domain&gt; +</pre> +</p> + +<p> +The next example assumes there is a private root filesystem +(perhaps hand-crafted using busybox, or installed from media, +debootstrap, whatever) under /opt/vm-1-root: +</p> +<p> +<pre> +&lt;domain type='lxc'&gt; + &lt;name&gt;vm1&lt;/name&gt; + &lt;memory&gt;32768&lt;/memory&gt; + &lt;os&gt; + &lt;type&gt;exe&lt;/type&gt; + &lt;init&gt;/init&lt;/init&gt; + &lt;/os&gt; + &lt;vcpu&gt;1&lt;/vcpu&gt; + &lt;clock offset='utc'/&gt; + &lt;on_poweroff&gt;destroy&lt;/on_poweroff&gt; + &lt;on_reboot&gt;restart&lt;/on_reboot&gt; + &lt;on_crash&gt;destroy&lt;/on_crash&gt; + &lt;devices&gt; + &lt;emulator&gt;/usr/libexec/libvirt_lxc&lt;/emulator&gt; + &lt;filesystem type='mount'&gt; + &lt;source dir='/opt/vm-1-root'/&gt; + &lt;target dir='/'/&gt; + &lt;/filesystem&gt; + &lt;interface type='network'&gt; + &lt;source network='default'/&gt; + &lt;/interface&gt; + &lt;console type='pty' /&gt; + &lt;/devices&gt; +&lt;/domain&gt; + +</pre> +</p> + +<p> +In both cases, you can define and start a container using: +<pre> +lxc --connect lxc:/// define v1.xml +lxc --connect lxc:/// start v1.xml +</pre> +and then get a console using: +<pre> +lxc --connect lxc:/// console v1 +</pre> +Now doing 'ps -ef' will only show processes in the container, for +instance. +</p> </div> </div> <div id="footer">