What is LXC

Linux Containers (LXC) are lightweight virtualization technology and provide a free software virtualization system for computers running GNU/Linux, This is accomplished through kernel level isolation, It allows one to run multiple virtual units (containers) simultaneously on the same host.

• manage resources using PCG ( process control groups ) implemented via cgroup filesystem
• Resource isolation via new flags to the clone(2) system call (capable of create several types of new namespace for things like PIDs and network routing)
• Several additional isolation mechanisms (such as the “-o newinstance” flag to the devpts filesystem).

The LXC package combines these Linux kernel mechanisms to provide a userspace container object, a lightweight virtual system with full resource isolation and resource control for an application or a system.

Installing LXC ( ubuntu 13.04 )

 $ sudo apt-get install lxc lxctl lxc-templates

Creating container

$ sudo lxc-create -t ubuntu -n ubuntu
$ sudo lxc-start -n ubuntu

Login in container

$ sudo lxc-console -n ubuntu -t 1

Install LXC web panel

$ sudo apt-get install lxc debootstrap bridge-utils -y
$ sudo su
$ wget http://lxc-webpanel.github.com/tools/install.sh -O - | bash

Login in LXC web panel

open broswer 

http://localhost:5000  
username :  admin 
password admin

web panel config file :  /srv/lwp/lwp.conf

useful links :

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LXC
• https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/lxc.html
• http://lxc.sourceforge.net/index.php/about/lxc-development/
• http://lxc-webpanel.github.io