Lack of documentation

[bodhi.zazen]

Binary package hint: lxc

In general, although I understand LXC is new and in development, there is a lack of quality documentation on the Ubuntu wiki on how to configure and use LXC.

There are people willing to assist with documentation, see this thread on the forums:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1382823

There is a draft wiki page here :

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LXC

I will contribute what I can, but I am just starting to learn lxc so I apologize in advance for any errors.

Please understand the necessity for quality documentation.

[Cédric Dufour (cdufour-keyword-ubuntu-086000)]

"Me too"
Personally, I'd love something like http://download.openvz.org/doc/OpenVZ-Users-Guide.pdf
Is there anywhere we can find something equivalent for LXC?
(what we need is a genuine *users guide*)

[Cédric Dufour (cdufour-keyword-ubuntu-086000)]

Some valuable pointers:
http://lxc.sourceforge.net/lxc.html (to start with)
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/en/man7/lxc.7.html (the hyperlinked version of the former)
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/en/man5/lxc.conf.5.html (in particular)
http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/cgroups.txt (to understand resources allocation and security)
http://libvirt.org/docs.html (unfortunately, the LXC part is quite succinct)

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Thanks for helping to make Ubuntu better. Documentation for lxc is definately
'spread out'. The ubuntu wiki page looks like a great start, and a great place
to gather community-generated documentation. If you haven't already done
so, you might announce these at the lxc, lxc-users, and/or containers mailing
lists.

I'm going to mark this bug Triaged as it is being handled (very well) by
the community.

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Just a note that I will be adding a section to
https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/C/virtualization.html
(which is currently
https://help.ubuntu.com/11.10/serverguide/C/virtualization.html )

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

A merge proposal has been created for the server guide LXC section at lp:~serge-hallyn/serverguide/serverguide-lxc.