perl program to control lxc-based containers in vzctl-like way.
$ lxctl --help
or $ lxctl --man
$ lxctl --help
Usage:
lxctl [action] [vmname] [options]
See lxctl --help for more info
Options:
--help Print a brief help message and exit
start Starts container specified in 1st argument
Required arguments:
vmname - name of the container
stop Stops container specified in 1st argument
Required arguments:
vmname - name of the container
create Creates container.
Required arguments:
vmname - name of the container
Optional arguments:
--ipaddr - IP address of the machine
--mask/netmask - network mask of the machine
--defgw - default gateway of the machine
--dns - primary DNS server
--ostemplate - template name, by default it is 'lucid_amd64'
--config - path to configuration file, by default /etc/lxc/ is used
--root - path to root file system, by default /var/lxc/ is used
--addpkg - list of additional packages (comma-separated)
--pkgopt - list of additional packet manager options (space-separated, but as one argument)
--rootsz - size of logical volume for root FS, by default it is 10G
--hostname - sets the hostname of the machine, by default is used
--searchdomain - set a custom searchdomain in /etc/resolv.conf
--macaddr - set the custom mac address of the container
--autostart - autostart container each reboot host machine
--no-save - do not save yaml config for new container, by default $CONF_PATH/vmname.yaml is used
--load - create container from yaml config
--debug - show more information about install process
--tz - set custom timezone (Europe/Moscow, UTC, etc)
--empty - create a clear container for migrate here
set Changes container parameters.
Required arguments:
vmname - name of the container
Optional arguments:
--rootsz - increment of size of logical volume for root FS
--ipaddr - IP address if the machine
--mask/netmask - network mask of the machine
--defgw - default gateway of the machine
--dns - primary DNS server
--hostname - sets the hostname of the machine
--searchdomain - set a custom searchdomain in /etc/resolv.conf
--macaddr - set the custom mac address if the machine
--userpasswd user:passwd - sets password for given user
--onboot {yes,no} - makes container [do not] start at boot
--tz - set custom timezone (Europe/Moscow, UTC, etc)
--cpu-shares - sets the CPU share of the container
--cpus - sets the CPU cores of the container
--mem - sets the memory share of the container (in bytes!)
--io - sets the IO share of the container
freeze Freezes container
Required arguments:
vmname - name of the container
unfreeze
Unfreezes container
Required arguments:
vmname - name of the container
list Lists all containers
Optional arguments:
--ipaddr - display with IP addr
--hostname - display with hostname.
--cgroup - display with cgroup
--mount - display with mount point for rootfs
--diskspace - display with free/full size
--all - display all information
--raw - display only vmnames
migrate Migrate container from localhost to remote host.
Required arguments
--tohost - to which host we should migrate
Optional arguments
--remuser - remote username for ssh
--remport - remote port for ssh
--remname - remote container name
--onboot - start on boot? 1 or 0
--userpasswd - 'user:password' formatted password for user
--clone - cloning, a little bit faster and softer then simple migration
--rootsz - remote root fs size
--afterstart - start local container again after migration
--cpus - cpus allocated to container
--cpu-shares - cpu time share of the container
--mem - memory limit of the container
--io - IO throughput
--ipaddr - IP of the remote container
--searchdomain - DNS search domain of the container
--netmask - network mask
--defgw - default gateway
--dns - DNS server
backup Create or restore backup container with use remote host.
Required arguments for create backup
--create - create backup
--tohost - remote host for store backup
--todir - remote dir for store backup
Required arguments for restore backup
--restore - restore backup
--fromhost - remote host from restore backup
--fromdir - remote dir from restore backup
Optional arguments
--remuser - remote username for ssh
--remport - remote port for ssh
--remname - remote container name
--userpasswd - 'user:password' formatted password for user
--afterstart - start local container after restore backup
vz2lxc Migrate VZ-container from remote host to local LXC container.
Required arguments
--fromhost - from which host we should migrate
--remname - remote container name
Optional arguments
--remuser - remote username for ssh
--remport - remote port for ssh
--onboot - start on boot? 1 or 0
--rootsz - remote root fs size
--afterstart - start local container again after migration
--cpus - cpus allocated to container
--cpu-shares - cpu time share of the container
--mem - memory limit of the container
--io - IO throughput
Feel free to contact us via email:
Anatoly Burtsev, anatolyburtsev@yandex.ru
Pavel Potapenkov, ppotapenkov@gmail.com
Vladimir Smirnov, civil.over@gmail.com
Copyright (C) 2011 by Anatoly Burtsev, Pavel Potapenkov, Vladimir Smirnov
This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms of GPL v2 or later, or, at your opinion under terms of artistic license.