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NAME

       adt-virt-lxc - autopkgtest virtualisation server using LXC

SYNOPSIS

       adt-virt-lxc [options] lxc-container [-- extra lxc-start args...]

DESCRIPTION

       adt-virt-lxc  provides  an  autopkgtest virtualisation server using LXC. It adapts the raw
       functionality provided by the lxc-* tools for use by autopkgtest.

       Normally adt-virt-lxc will be invoked by adt-run.

       You can conveniently create a suitable container using the adt-build-lxc(1) script.

REQUIREMENTS

       adt-virt-lxc assumes that you have already prepared a suitable Debian based LXC container.
       See  lxc-create(1)  for  how  to  create containers, and particularly adt-build-lxc(1) for
       conveniently creating standard autopkgtest containers.

OPTIONS

       -e | --ephemeral
              This  option  makes  use  of  lxc-start-ephemeral  to  create  temporary  container
              overlays, instead of the default behaviour of cloning your containers.

              This  can  be used to dramatically improve performance, although you may see issues
              due to the overlayfs filesystem as used by lxc-start-ephemeral not being completely
              transparent  (e.  g.  seen  with  tar failing when running LXC within Qemu). Before
              using this option in automation you should ensure that tests that involve large I/O
              work as expected.

              Note  that  ephemeral  containers  do not support rebooting with LXC 1.x. This does
              work with LXC >= 2.x.

       -s | --sudo
              Run lxc-* commands through sudo; use this option if you run adt-run as normal user,
              but  need  to  run  the  container  itself  as  root  (if  you use LXC system level
              containers).

        --name NAME
              Set a custom name for the temporary container in which to run  the  test.  This  is
              autogenerated  by  default (adt-virt-lxc-XXXXXX), but if you have a way to generate
              more expressive unique names you can use that to make it easier to  map  containers
              to running tests.

       -d | --debug
              Enables debugging output.

       You  can  pass additional options to LXC: Anything after a -- gets passed verbatim to lxc-
       start/lxc-start-ephemeral.

INPUT, OUTPUT AND EXIT STATUS

       The behaviour of adt-virt-lxc is  as  described  by  the  AutomatedTesting  virtualisation
       regime specification.

NOTES

       adt-run  does  not  run  apt-get update at the start of a package build, which can cause a
       build failure if you are using a development release template. You will need to  run  apt-
       get update in the template yourself (e. g. using --setup-commands).

EXAMPLE

       Create  a  suitable  debootstrap-based  container  for Debian or Ubuntu template, e.  g. a
       Debian sid one (will be named adt-sid):

              adt-build-lxc debian sid

       Or an Ubuntu one based on the cloud images (faster than adt-build-lxc's "ubuntu"  template
       with debootstrap, but much bigger):

              lxc-create -t ubuntu-cloud -n adt-trusty -- -r trusty -d daily

       Run  tests against hello_2.8-4.dsc, using the LXC container adt-sid, and with an ephemeral
       overlay for speed:

              adt-run hello_2.8-4.dsc --- adt-virt-lxc -e adt-sid

SEE ALSO

       adt-run(1), adt-build-lxc(1), lxc-create(1), /usr/share/doc/autopkgtest/.

AUTHORS AND COPYRIGHT

       adt-virt-lxc was written  by  Robie  Basak  <robie.basak@canonical.com>  and  Martin  Pitt
       <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>.

       This  manpage  is  part  of  autopkgtest,  a  tool  for  testing  Debian  binary packages.
       autopkgtest is Copyright (C) 2006-2013 Canonical Ltd and others.

       See /usr/share/doc/autopkgtest/CREDITS for the  list  of  contributors  and  full  copying
       conditions.