So I've followed this tutorial on a vanilla CentOS 6.5 (x64) hardware install ... http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/LXC-on-CentOS6 (barring the name and location of the container) I'm getting the following error when trying to intialise the container ... # virt-install --connect lxc:/// --name dns --ram 512 --vcpu 1 --filesystem /srv/lxc/dns,/ --noautoconsole ERROR internal error lxc state driver is not active Does this howto miss a step somewhere? Is something in the CentOS distribution broken? # rpm -qa | egrep 'lxc|libvirt' lxc-0.9.0-2.el6.x86_64 libvirt-python-0.10.2-29.el6_5.3.x86_64 lxc-libs-0.9.0-2.el6.x86_64 libvirt-client-0.10.2-29.el6_5.3.x86_64 libvirt-0.10.2-29.el6_5.3.x86_64 lxc-templates-0.9.0-2.el6.x86_64 Thanks Tom Taylor