Quoting Michael H. Warfield (m...@wittsend.com): > On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 08:10 -0600, Serge Hallyn wrote: > > Quoting Michael H. Warfield (m...@wittsend.com): > > > There has been very little discussion in the main project over how to > > > manage autobooting containers (or maybe I've missed it). Maybe it's > > > time we had it. > > > > > > What I do now is specific to my constellations of 6 lxc hosts (about 4 > > > dozen guest containers) at two sites. I would personally prefer this > > > sort of information to be contained in the individual container config > > > files, ala OpenVZ and Linux-Vservers, without creating an entirely new, > > > distribution specific, configuration file. > > > > > > Primary argument with having it contained within the container config > > > really concerns migration. When I migrated a container from one host to > > > another host in the same cluster, if all that information is in the > > > container config, it follows along. If you bury it in a common config, > > > you then have to edit those configuration files on both the servers (the > > > throwing and the catching) in order to properly complete the migration. > > > I don't like that idea at all. > > > > Buried in a config, but it could be exposed by lxc-info so it wouldn't > > be so bad. Though I guess it could be an issue for boot-speed fanatics > > who want to minimize random disk access during boot. > > I won't say that I'm a boot speed fanatic but I can be (more than) a > little OCD with regards to getting certain critical containers up as > quickly as possible even where other delays dominate.
Sorry, I think you misunderstood what I meant by that :) By boot speed fanatics, I meant people who want to avoid having init scripts look under /etc/default/$pkg because that adds seeking which slows down boot. For those people, if any laptop that has some containers will, at boot, have to scan /var/lib/lxc/*/config to find lxc.boot entries, that will be unacceptable. And TBH since my main laptop has an SSD but doesn't suspend/resume, 5 sec boot time is precious to me. But I don't autostart containers on that laptop. With 'boot speed fanatics' I was not talking about people who want containers brought up at boot. -serge ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d _______________________________________________ Lxc-users mailing list Lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users
