lxc-info (1) Linux Manual Page
lxc-info – query information about a container
Synopsis
lxc-info {-n name} [-c KEY] [-s] [-p] [-i] [-S] [-H]Description
lxc-info queries and shows information about a container.Options
- [-c KEY]
- Print a configuration key from the container. This option may be given multiple times to print out multiple key = value pairs.
- [-s]
- Just print the container’s state.
- [-p]
- Just print the container’s pid.
- [-i]
- Just print the container’s IP addresses.
- [-S]
- Just print the container’s statistics. Note that for performance reasons the kernel does not account kernel memory use unless a kernel memory limit is set. If a limit is not set, lxc-info will display kernel memory use as 0. A limit can be set by specifying
lxc.cgroup.memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes = number
in your container configuration file, see lxc.conf(5).
- [-H]
- Print the container’s statistics in raw, non-humanized form. The default is to print statistics in humanized form.
Common Options
These options are common to most of lxc commands.- -?, -h, –help
- Print a longer usage message than normal.
- –usage
- Give the usage message
- -q, –quiet
- mute on
- -P, –lxcpath=PATH
- Use an alternate container path. The default is /var/lib/lxc.
- -o, –logfile=FILE
- Output to an alternate log FILE. The default is no log.
- -l, –logpriority=LEVEL
- Set log priority to LEVEL. The default log priority is ERROR. Possible values are : FATAL, CRIT, WARN, ERROR, NOTICE, INFO, DEBUG.
Note that this option is setting the priority of the events log in the alternate log file. It do not have effect on the ERROR events log on stderr.
- -n, –name=NAME
- Use container identifier NAME. The container identifier format is an alphanumeric string.
- –version
- Show the version number.
Examples
- lxc-info -n foo
- Show information for foo.
- lxc-info -n ‘ubuntu.*’
- Show information for all containers whose name starts with ubuntu.
- lxc-info -n foo -c lxc.network.0.veth.pair
- prints the veth pair name of foo.