LXC Utilities

Several command line utilities are available to manage the LXC containers:

LXC Commands

COMMAND DESCRIPTION lxc-checkconfig Verify the prerequisites are available lxc-create Create a LXC container lxc-start Start a previously created LXC container lxc-attach Connect a console to a LXC container lxc-stop Stop a running LXC container lxc-destroy Remove an existing LXC container lxc-autostart Set a LXC container to automatically start at boot time lxc-copy Create a copy of an existing LXC container lxc-info Display information about a LXC container lxc-top Monitor container statistics

This table provides a list of the more common commands used with LXC containers. Use the associated man pages for complete details.

One utility that is outside the normal distribution packages is distrobuilder which can create the OS images for LXC and LXD containers.