a home/$me bind-mounted template would rock

[Robert Collins]

13:13 < lifeless> hallyn: I want to do LP development in a lxc container rather than a VM
13:13 < lifeless> hallyn: so in the container I want to install rabbitmq, postgresql, apache etc
13:13 < lifeless> hallyn: and I want my source code sitting in my /home/robertc
13:14 < lifeless> hallyn: where I can edit it as normal, commit with my bzr & gpg keys etc
13:14 < lifeless> hallyn: then run the tests within the lxc container, using the lxc postgresql, rabbit apache
13:15 < lifeless> hallyn: so inside the lxc it needs to write to me homedir without messing stuff up, but I don't care about service accounts
13:15 < hallyn> lifeless: would you want the whole /home bind-mounted? just ~/src or something?
13:16 < lifeless> hallyn: whole home/$me would be easiest to reason about I think
13:16 < hallyn> 'without messing stuff up' meaning not changing owner uids, right?
13:16 < lifeless> yeah
13:16 < hallyn> ok
13:16 < hallyn> lifeless: i think i'd use that myself :) would that be higher prio for you than cgroup-bin?
13:16 < lifeless> definitely

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Patches are here:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20110622140928.GA12177%40mail.hallyn.com&forum_name=lxc-users

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20110622181733.GA17756%40mail.hallyn.com&forum_name=lxc-users

With these, I can do:

lxc-create -t ubuntu -n n1 -f /etc/lxc.conf -- -r natty -b serge

to create a natty-based container called n1, with user serge with my password existing in the container and /home/serge bind-mounted in.

I'll post new packages with this support to ppa:serge-hallyn/lxc-natty later today.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package lxc - 0.7.4.2-0.3ubuntu1

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lxc (0.7.4.2-0.3ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * Sync upstream 0.7.4.2
  * Add diff up to git head.
    - Fix interaction with cgroups-bin (LP: #784093)
    - Fix arch support to create i386 containers on amd64 (LP: #798476)
    - Support a bind-mounted $HOME with template (LP: #800482)
  * add debootstrap to Recommends (LP: #803745)
  * debian/patchs updates:
    - refresh 0002-disable-debian-checkroot-script.patch
    - drop:
      * 0004-add-ubuntu-mirrors.patch
      * 0005-add-netbase-to-templates.patch
      * 0006-fix-template-syntax-error.patch
      * 0007-natty-template-install-lxcguest.patch
      * 0010-templates-use-dpkg.patch
    - renamed and updated:
      * 0008-add-arm-to-supported-archs.patch to
        0004-add-arm-to-supported-archs.patch
      * 0009-templates-dont-use-devpts-in-fstab to
        0005-dont-use-devpts-in-fstab
      * 0011-templates-allow-fuse.patch to
        0006-templates-allow-fuse.patch
  * remove unused debian/lxc-start.sh
  * include autoreconf.mk to force Makefile.in to be rebuilt
  * Remaining changes over debian:
    - add lxcguest package
    - debian/control
      * keep docbook-utils in Build-Depends
    - lxc.default: add commented example MIRROR
 -- Serge Hallyn <email address hidden> Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:53:52 -0500