upstart depends on inotify, and overlayfs does not support inotify.
That means that the following results in 'tgt' not running. tgt is simply
used here as an example of a service that installs an upstart job and
starts it on package install.
lxc-clone -s -B overlayfs -o source-precise-amd64 -n test1
lxc-start -n test1
..
apt-get install tgt
The change here is to modify /sbin/start inside the container so that when
something explicitly tries 'start', it results in an explicit call to
'initctl reload-configuration' so that upstart is aware of the newly
placed job.
Should overlayfs ever gain inotify support, this should still not cause
any harm.
Signed-off-by: Scott Moser <smoser@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
--userdata was broken, completely missing an implementation.
This adds that implementation back in, makes 'debug' logic
correct, and then also improves the doc at the top.
Signed-off-by: Scott Moser <smoser@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
This allows ability to now specify '--userdata' arguments to 'create' or
to 'clone'. So now, the following means very fast start of instances with
different user-data.
$ sudo lxc-create -t ubuntu-cloud -n precise -- \
-r precise --arch amd64
$ sudo lxc-clone -B overlayfs -o precise -s -n ephem1 \
--userdata="my.userdata1"
$ sudo lxc-clone -B overlayfs -o precise -s -n ephem2 \
--userdata="my.userdata2"
Also present here is
* an improvement to the static list of Ubuntu releases. It uses
ubuntu-distro-info if available degrades back to a static list on failure.
* moving of the replacement variables to the top of the create template This
is just to make it more obvious what is being replaced and put them in a
single location.
Signed-off-by: Scott Moser <smoser@ubuntu.com>
