lxc-freeze - freeze all the container's processes
Contents
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, ALERT,
CRIT, WARN, ERROR, NOTICE, INFO, DEBUG, TRACE.
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.
--rcfile=FILE
Specify the configuration file to configure the virtualization and isolation functionalities for
the container.
This configuration file if present will be used even if there is already a configuration file
present in the previously created container (via lxc-create).
--version
Show the version number.
Description
lxc-freeze freezes all the processes running inside the container. The processes will be blocked until
they are explicitly thawed by the lxc-unfreeze command. This command is useful for batch managers to
schedule a group of processes.
Diagnostic
The container was not found
The specified container was not created before with the lxc-create command.
Name
lxc-freeze - freeze all the container's processes
See Also
lxc(7), lxc-create(1), lxc-copy(1), lxc-destroy(1), lxc-start(1), lxc-stop(1), lxc-execute(1), lxc-con‐sole(1), lxc-monitor(1), lxc-wait(1), lxc-cgroup(1), lxc-ls(1), lxc-info(1), lxc-freeze(1), lxc-un‐freeze(1), lxc-attach(1), lxc.conf(5) 2025-05-10 lxc-freeze(1)
Synopsis
lxc-freeze {-n name}
