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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.

1. Resources

• LXC Project homepage

• Linux Containers mailing list

• Gentoo wiki about LXC

• Arch Linux documentation

• OpenSUSE documentation

2. Contents

2.1. Guest creation

Build the guest system:

# lxc-create -t pld-test -p pld -f network-configuration-file

There are two versions of PLD available for guest systems:

• ac - PLD 2.0 (Ac)

• th - PLD 3.0 (Th)

You may choose one using -R option:

# lxc-create -t pld-test -p pld -f network-configuration-file -- -R th

!!! WARNING: pld template for LXC is yet to be written !!!