Comments on: LXC on Debian Squeeze

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:58:54 +0000

Thanks for this tutorial.

@Giles: Yes it exists, it has just been moved to /usr/lib/lxc/templates

By: Gautham Pai

Gautham Pai — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:04:00 +0000

Wonderful! I have had major issues configuring LXC and eventually came across this post. I had to just follow these instructions to get it to work cleanly.

There was one minor change though:
The file /usr/share/doc/lxc/examples/lxc-debian.gz was not found in my Debian install.

root@debian:~# cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 \n \l

root@debian:~# uname -a
Linux debian 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Fri Sep 9 20:51:05 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux

I found the lxc-debian script at this location:
/usr/lib/lxc/templates/lxc-debian

Thanks again.

Gautham

By: uk

uk — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:53:52 +0000

@Pavlinux: Did you try to assign an IP, like ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.111 in the vm? It won’t get one, unless you have a dhcp setup.

By: Pavlinux

Pavlinux — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 01:05:41 +0000

I set all parametrs like in this tutorial, but no network

lxc.utsname = vm0
lxc.network.type = veth
lxc.network.flags = up
lxc.network.link = br0

# lxc.network.name = eth0

lxc.network.hwaddr = 00:FF:12:34:56:78
lxc.network.ipv4 = 10.0.0.110/24

—

vm0# ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:ff:12:34:56:78
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:192 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:8832 (8.6 KiB) TX bytes:1968 (1.9 KiB)

By: Kristian Kirilov

Kristian Kirilov — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 11:44:00 +0000

Many thanks for this LXC quick hand book. Very useful for me.

By: tsanhwa

tsanhwa — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:03:35 +0000

Thank you. I get a network problem. I can connect to lxc from host machine, but can’t get to lxc from outside network.

By: victor

victor — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 14:02:47 +0000

Thanks a lot for your post, it helped me a lot in the discovery of lxc.

By: uk

uk — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:32:38 +0000

Hello Abhishek Can you provide the output of brctl show and brctl showstp [your-bridge]? Also make sure, you've set lxc.network.type = veth and lxc.network.link = br0.. Greets Ulrich

By: Abhishek Amralkar

Abhishek Amralkar — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 07:44:57 +0000

Hi I tried to install LXC according to ur tutorial but internet not working on my LXC also I am not able to Ping LXC from the host machine and vice versa.I want my LXC should also ne in same network as my host machine also I should be able to connect to MY LXC from network via SSH .Is this possible?

By: Jostein

Jostein — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:59:46 +0000

Thanks for great article.
made this work on my Powermac G5 with Debian Squeeze.
With some tweaking I got it working. This is what I had to do:
* New kernel. Downloaded the latest longterm kernel from kernel.org. (somehow the kernel source from debian repository did not compile)
* Downloaded the templates scrips. Had to add support for powerpc in the script; below section for arch=i386 i added this:
if [ "arch" == "ppc64"];then arch=powerpc
(I have just tried the squeeze script yet. But I will try to make an ubuntu instance later.)