LXC-START(1)

NAME
lxc-start - run an application inside a container.

SYNOPSIS
lxc-start -n name [-f config_file] [-c console_file] [-d] [-s KEY=VAL] [command]

DESCRIPTION

lxc-start runs the specified command inside the container specified by name.

It will setup the container according to the configuration previously defined with the lxc-create command or with the configuration file parameter. If no configuration is defined, the default isolation is used.

The orphan process group and daemon are not supported by this command, use the lxc-execute command instead.

If no command is specified, lxc-start will use the default "/sbin/init" command to run a system container.

OPTIONS

-d, --daemon
    Run the container as a daemon. As the container has no more tty, if an error occurs nothing will be displayed, the log file can be used to check the error.

-f, --rcfile config_file
    Specify the configuration file to configure the virtualization and isolation functionalities for the container. This configuration file if present will be used even if there is already a configuration file present in the previously created container (via lxc-create).

-c, --console console_file
    Specify a file to output the container console. If the option is not specified the output will go the terminal except if the -d is specified.

-s, --define KEY=VAL
    Assign value VAL to configuration variable KEY. This overrides any assignment done in config_file.

COMMON OPTIONS

These options are common to most of lxc commands.

-?, -h, --help
    Print a longer usage message than normal.

--usage
    Give the usage message

-q, --quiet
    mute on

-o, --logfile=FILE
    Output to an alternate log FILE. The default is no log.

-l, --logpriority=LEVEL
    Set log priority to LEVEL. The default log priority is ERROR. Possible values are : FATAL, CRIT, WARN, ERROR, NOTICE, INFO, DEBUG. Note that this option is setting the priority of the events log in the alternate log file. It do not have effect on the ERROR events log on stderr.

-n, --name=NAME
    Use container identifier NAME. The container identifier format is an alphanumeric string.

DIAGNOSTIC

The container is busy
    The specified container is already running an application. You should stop it before reuse this container or create a new one.

SEE ALSO

lxc(1), lxc-create(1), lxc-destroy(1), lxc-start(1), lxc-stop(1), lxc-execute(1), lxc-kill(1), lxc-console(1), lxc-monitor(1), lxc-wait(1), lxc-cgroup(1), lxc-ls(1), lxc-ps(1), lxc-info(1), lxc-freeze(1), lxc-unfreeze(1), lxc.conf(5)

AUTHOR

Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>