lxctl8

Overview

Options

--help

Print a brief help message and exists

--man

Prints the manual page and exits.

start

Starts container specified in 1st argument

Required arguments:

vmname - name of the container

stop

Stops container specified in 1st argument

Required arguments:

vmname - name of the container

create

Creates container.

Required arguments:

vmname - name of the container

Optional arguments:

--ipaddr - IP address of the machine

--mask/netmask - network mask of the machine

--defgw - default gateway of the machine

--dns - primary DNS server

--ostemplate - template name, by default it is 'lucid_amd64'

--config - path to configuration file, by default /etc/lxc/<container name> is used

--root - path to root file system, by default /var/lib/lxctl/<container name> is used

--addpkg - list of additional packages (comma-separated)

--pkgopt - list of additional packet manager options (space-separated, but as one argument)

--rootsz - size of logical volume for root FS, by default it is 10G

--hostname - sets the hostname of the machine, by default <container name> is used

--searchdomain - set a custom searchdomain in /etc/resolv.conf

--macaddr - set the custom mac address of the container

--autostart - autostart container each reboot host machine

--no-save - do not save yaml config for new container, by default $CONF_PATH/vmname.yaml is used

--load - create container from yaml config

--debug - show more information about install process

--tz - set custom timezone (Europe/Moscow, UTC, etc)

--empty - create a clear container for migrate here

set

Changes container parameters.

Required arguments:

vmname - name of the container

Optional arguments:

--rootsz - increment of size of logical volume for root FS

--ipaddr - IP address of the machine

--mask/netmask - network mask of the machine

--defgw - default gateway of the machine

--dns - primary DNS server

--hostname - sets the hostname of the machine

--searchdomain - set a custom searchdomain in /etc/resolv.conf

--macaddr - set the custom mac address of the machine

--userpasswd user:passwd - sets password for given user

--onboot {yes,no} - makes container [do not] start at boot

--tz - set custom timezone (Europe/Moscow, UTC, etc)

--cpu-shares - sets the CPU share of the container

--cpus - sets the CPU cores of the container

--mem - sets the memory share of the container (in bytes!)

--io - sets the IO share of the container

freeze

Freezes container

Required arguments:

vmname - name of the container

unfreeze

Unfreezes container

Required arguments:

vmname - name of the container

list

Lists all containers

Optional arguments:

--ipaddr - display with IP addr

--hostname - display with hostname.

--cgroup - display with cgroup

--mount - display with mount point for rootfs

--diskspace - display with free/full size

--all - display all information

--raw - display only vmnames

migrate Migrate container from localhost to remote host.

Required arguments

--vmname - container name

--tohost - to which host we should migrate

Optional arguments

--remuser - remote username for ssh

--remport - remote port for ssh

--remname - remote container name

--onboot - start on boot? 1 or 0

--userpasswd - 'user:password' formatted password for user

--clone - cloning, a little bit faster and softer then simple migration

--rootsz - remote root fs size

--afterstart - start local container again after migration

--cpus - cpus allocated to container

--cpu-shares - cpu time share of the container

--mem - memory limit of the container

--io - IO throughput

--ipaddr - IP of the remote container

--searchdomain - DNS search domain of the container

--netmask - network mask

--defgw - default gateway

--dns - DNS server

vz2lxc

Migrate VZ-container from remote host to local LXC container.

Required arguments

--vmname - container name

--fromhost - from which host we should migrate

--remname - remote container name

Optional arguments

--remuser - remote username for ssh

--remport - remote port for ssh

--onboot - start on boot? 1 or 0

--rootsz - remote root fs size

--afterstart - start local container again after migration

--cpus - cpus allocated to container

--cpu-shares - cpu time share of the container

--mem - memory limit of the container

--io - IO throughput