Comment 34 for bug 1611078

I am still unable to run snaps inside lxd containers. I've just tested on an Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS host:

$ uname -a
Linux hp 4.10.0-33-generic #37~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 11 14:07:24 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ lxc version
2.0.10
$ lxc launch ubuntu:16.04 test
Creating test
Starting test
$ lxc exec test -- apt update
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$ lxc exec test -- apt dist-upgrade -y
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$ lxc exec test -- apt install squashfuse -y
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$ lxc exec test -- snap install hello
error: cannot communicate with server: Post http://localhost/v2/snaps/hello: dial unix /run/snapd.socket: connect: connection refused
$ lxc exec test -- systemctl status snapd
● snapd.service - Snappy daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/snapd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead) (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2017-08-30 22:39:39 UTC; 35s ago
 Main PID: 2017 (code=exited, status=201/NICE)

Aug 30 22:39:39 test systemd[1]: snapd.service: Unit entered failed state.
Aug 30 22:39:39 test systemd[1]: snapd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Aug 30 22:39:39 test systemd[1]: snapd.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Aug 30 22:39:39 test systemd[1]: Stopped Snappy daemon.
Aug 30 22:39:39 test systemd[1]: snapd.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Aug 30 22:39:39 test systemd[1]: Failed to start Snappy daemon.
$ lxc exec test -- snap version
snap 2.26.10
snapd unavailable
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