Interesting. I've been using LXD but I thought of it as LXD for the container server side which hosted LXC containers. I guess that was the wrong way of looking at it based on your comments.
On Aug 11, 2016 5:24 PM, "Sean McNamara" <smc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 8:12 PM, Worth Spending <worthspend...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I'm currently reading thru the documentation at: > https://linuxcontainers.org > > to learn lxc. > > > > There seems to be multiple ways of running lxc commands. > > > > lxc-start, lxc-stop, lxc-attach, lxc-ls > > > The "hyphenated" commands are from the "legacy" LXC command line interface. > > > > > > or lxc with sub commands. > > > > lxc start > > > > lxc stop > > > > lxc list > > The "non-hyphenated" commands are for the **LXD** (D, not C) container > hypervisor. This is a completely different product/application than > LXC. The LXD client binary, `lxc`, is extremely unfortunately named > and thus very confusing for new users, which has been discussed about > 9000 times on this mailing list. > > > > > > > > So, the question is: What is the current preferred usage for lxc > commands? > > hyphenated commands or lxc with sub commands? > > > You need to look into the benefits and drawbacks of using either LXC > or LXD (consider each one separately in terms of what it offers, how > it's implemented, and how it's used) and make a decision. If you use > the hyphenated LXC commands, any containers you create in that > environment will be completely invisible to LXD, and vice versa. They > each keep track of containers differently so LXD does not know about > LXC containers and LXC does not know about LXD containers. > > > > > > Thanks... > > > > _______________________________________________ > > lxc-users mailing list > > lxc-users@lists.linuxcontainers.org > > http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users > _______________________________________________ > lxc-users mailing list > lxc-users@lists.linuxcontainers.org > http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users
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