The software described in this documentation is either in Extended Support or Sustaining Support. See https://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/enterprise-linux-support-policies-069172.pdf for more information.
Oracle recommends that you upgrade the software described by this documentation as soon as possible.
To clone an existing container, use the lxc-clone command, as shown in this example:
[root@host ~]# lxc-clone -o ol6ctr1 -n ol6ctr2Alternatively, you can use the lxc-create command to create a container by copying the root file system from an existing system, container, or Oracle VM template. Specify the path of the root file system as the argument to the --templatefs template option:
[root@host ~]# lxc-create -n ol6ctr3 -B btrfs -t oracle -- --templatefs=/container/ol6ctr1/rootfs_snap
This example copies the new container's rootfs
from a snapshot of the rootfs that belongs to
container ol6ctr1. The additional container is
created in /container/ol6ctr3 and a new
rootfs snapshot is created in
/container/ol6ctr3/rootfs.
For LXC version 1.0 and later, you must specify the -B
btrfs option if you want to use the snapshot features
of btrfs. For more information, see the
lxc-create(1) manual page.
To change the host name of the container, edit the
HOSTNAME settings in
/container/
and
name/rootfs/etc/sysconfig/network/container/,
where name/rootfs/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ifaceiface is the name of the
network interface, such as eth0.