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lxc_wold

Wake-on-LAN for Linux containers: a daemon that starts an LXC container when a magic packet for its MAC address arrives.

Role
Author
Period
2013–2015
Stack
C, LXC, CMake
Source
github.com/FlorianFranzen/lxc_wold
lxc_wold mark

Stopped containers should behave like sleeping machines. lxc_wold watches the network for Wake-on-LAN magic packets, matches the MAC address against the configured containers and starts the right one through liblxc, so anything that can wake a computer can wake a container too.