Serge, Here's the complete libvirtd log during the run with full debug:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/12136138/ it's mostly noise, but I do see this: % grep cgroup libvirtd-cgm-log.txt Aug 20 15:20:15 vivid-v1 libvirtd[13114]: cgmanager: cgm_set for controller=devices, cgroup_path=machine/testme.libvirt-qemu failed: invalid request Which I think coincides with the cgm error on the host: http://paste.ubuntu.com/12136201/ Aug 20 15:12:33 v1 cgmanager[19873]: cgmanager: Failed to chown procs file /run/cgmanager/fs/none,name=systemd/lxc/vivid-v1/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/cgroup.procs/cgroup.procs: Not a directory Aug 20 15:12:33 v1 cgmanager[19873]: cgmanager: Failed to chown tasks file /run/cgmanager/fs/none,name=systemd/lxc/vivid-v1/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/cgroup.procs/tasks: Not a directory Aug 20 15:12:33 v1 cgmanager[19873]: cgmanager: Failed to chown procs file /run/cgmanager/fs/none,name=systemd/lxc/vivid-v1/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/tasks/cgroup.procs: Not a directory Aug 20 15:12:33 v1 cgmanager[19873]: cgmanager: Failed to chown tasks file /run/cgmanager/fs/none,name=systemd/lxc/vivid-v1/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/tasks/tasks: Not a directory Aug 20 15:13:00 v1 cgmanager[19873]: cgmanager: Failed to chown procs file /run/cgmanager/fs/none,name=systemd/lxc/vivid-v1/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/cgroup.procs/cgroup.procs: Not a directory Aug 20 15:13:00 v1 cgmanager[19873]: cgmanager: Failed to chown tasks file /run/cgmanager/fs/none,name=systemd/lxc/vivid-v1/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/cgroup.procs/tasks: Not a directory Aug 20 15:13:00 v1 cgmanager[19873]: cgmanager: Failed to chown procs file /run/cgmanager/fs/none,name=systemd/lxc/vivid-v1/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/tasks/cgroup.procs: Not a directory Aug 20 15:13:00 v1 cgmanager[19873]: cgmanager: Failed to chown tasks file /run/cgmanager/fs/none,name=systemd/lxc/vivid-v1/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/tasks/tasks: Not a directory -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1486296 Title: Unable to start VMs under a lxc container To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/1486296/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs