[Lxc-users] LXC Container Boot/Shutdown errors

2011-02-16 Thread Kelly Gibson
Background: I am in the middle of researching a switch from VMware's free ESXi server to Linux containers. I have found somewhat spotty documentation which in general does not bother me, but I have come to a bit of a roadblock. I use Gentoo as my distribution of choice (I have many machines

Re: [Lxc-users] LXC Container Boot/Shutdown errors

2011-02-16 Thread Walter Stanish
Gentoo has an unsupported script called lxc-gentoo that will ... Any help to resolve the above situations would be appreciated. Hi Kelly, I am one of the lxc-gentoo authors. However, I am only able to spend time on it sporadically and mostly merge other people's fixes and additions these

[Lxc-users] Sharing rootfs - expected?

2011-02-16 Thread Nirmal Guhan
Hi, Is it an expected behavior for containers to share the host root filesystem when I *specify* the rootfs in the config file? I hope not. Here is my config lxc.utsname = mylxc lxc.rootfs = /lxc/test/rootfs lxc.mount = /lxc/test.fstab lxc.tty = 3 Note that I do not have network related

[Lxc-users] collectd lxc plugin

2011-02-16 Thread Trent W. Buck
collectd is a daemon that collects statistics in a round-robin database, for subsequent performance analysis. I'm deploying it as a replacement for munin. When I deploy collectd nodes in containers, many of the basic plugins are not useful, because (as at 2.6.32) queries like how much memory is

Re: [Lxc-users] Sharing rootfs - expected?

2011-02-16 Thread Trent W. Buck
Nirmal Guhan vavat...@gmail.com writes: Is it an expected behavior for containers to share the host root filesystem when I *specify* the rootfs in the config file? No. -- The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: