Re: [lxc-users] Creating a Linux container that is just a sandbox of my actual installation

2015-05-31 Thread james harvey
Also encountering what I consider a bug. [inside lxc instance] /root # touch in [OUTSIDE] # ls -la /var/lib/lxc/overlay/rw/root/in -rw-r--r--. 1 root root0 May 31 22:12 /var/lib/lxc/overlay/rw/root/in [inside lxc instance] # rm -f in [OUTSIDE] # ls -la /var/lib/lxc/overlay/rw/root/in ... No

Re: [lxc-users] Creating a Linux container that is just a sandbox of my actual installation

2015-05-31 Thread james harvey
If it's only keep the files separate, then overlayfs should do the job. Note that due to the nature of overlayfs, I wouldn't recommend RELYING on packages upgraded on the host to be available on the container. During your container customization, it's possible that you broke the link (e.g.

Re: [lxc-users] Creating a Linux container that is just a sandbox of my actual installation

2015-05-30 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 6:58 AM, james harvey jamespharve...@gmail.com wrote: I want to create a container that starts out being identical to my top-level no-container installation. I want any changes performed within the container to be kept in the container. I want anything added to my

[lxc-users] Creating a Linux container that is just a sandbox of my actual installation

2015-05-30 Thread james harvey
I want to create a container that starts out being identical to my top-level no-container installation. I want any changes performed within the container to be kept in the container. I want anything added to my top-level no-container installation to automatically show up in already made

Re: [lxc-users] Creating a Linux container that is just a sandbox of my actual installation

2015-05-30 Thread james harvey
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha l...@fajar.net wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 6:58 AM, james harvey jamespharve...@gmail.com wrote: I want to create a container that starts out being identical to my top-level no-container installation. I want any changes performed within

Re: [lxc-users] Creating a Linux container that is just a sandbox of my actual installation

2015-05-30 Thread james harvey
What is your primary goal? ... Part of me is wondering if I can overlayfs everything, and chroot a terminal into the overlayfs mount. Not too worried about malicious apps for my situation in Linux. Just want to keep the files separate. ___ lxc-users

Re: [lxc-users] Creating a Linux container that is just a sandbox of my actual installation

2015-05-30 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 8:14 AM, james harvey jamespharve...@gmail.com wrote: What is your primary goal? ... Part of me is wondering if I can overlayfs everything, and chroot a terminal into the overlayfs mount. Not too worried about malicious apps for my situation in Linux. Just want to