Hi, the storage.lvm_vg_name is not a per-container config setting, it's for the whole daemon.
You set it using 'lxc config set storage.lvm_vg_name myvolgroup', and then lxd will use the volume group as storage for every new image and container that you create afterwards. On 10/9/15, Austin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all. > > I see from https://github.com/lxc/lxd/blob/master/specs/storage-backends.md > that LVM can be used as a backingstore with LXD. > > I've previously managed to get LVM working with LXC. This was very > pleasing, since it allows me to control disk consumption. However I > can't work out how to achieve this with LXD. > > From what I understand, storage.lvm_vg_name must point to my volume > group. I've set this for a container by creating a profile, and > applying that profile to the container. The entire profile config > looks like this: > > name: my-profile-name > config: > raw.lxc: | > storage.lvm_vg_name = lxc-volume-group > lxc.start.auto = 1 > lxc.arch = amd64 > lxc.network.type = veth > lxc.network.link = lxcbr0 > lxc.network.flags = up > lxc.network.hwaddr = 00:16:3e:xx:xx:xx > lxc.cgroup.cpu.shares = 1 > lxc.cgroup.memory.limit_in_bytes = 76895572 > security.privileged: "false" > devices: {} > > The volume group should be available and working, according to > pvdisplay on the host box: > > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/sdc5 > VG Name lxc-volume-group > PV Size 21.87 GiB / not usable 3.97 MiB > Allocatable yes > PE Size 4.00 MiB > Total PE 5599 > Free PE 901 > Allocated PE 4698 > PV UUID what-ever > > However after applying the profile and starting the container, it > appears to be using file backing store: > > me@my-box:~# ls /var/lib/lxd/containers/migratee/rootfs/ > bin boot dev etc home lib lib64 lost+found media mnt opt > proc root run sbin srv sys tmp usr var > > What am I doing wrong? > > Many thanks! > _______________________________________________ > lxc-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users _______________________________________________ lxc-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users
