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lxc-freeze(1) lxc-freeze(1)
lxc-freeze - freeze all the container's processes
lxc-freeze {-n name}
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 man‐
agers to schedule a group of processes.
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 ER‐
ROR. 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 virtualiza‐
tion 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 previ‐
ously created container (via lxc-create).
--version
Show the version number.
The container was not found
The specified container was not created before with the
lxc-create command.
lxc(7), lxc-create(1), lxc-copy(1), lxc-destroy(1), lxc-start(1),
lxc-stop(1), lxc-execute(1), lxc-console(1), lxc-monitor(1),
lxc-wait(1), lxc-cgroup(1), lxc-ls(1), lxc-info(1), lxc-freeze(1),
lxc-unfreeze(1), lxc-attach(1), lxc.conf(5)
This page is part of the lxc (Linux containers) project. Informa‐
tion about the project can be found at
⟨http://linuxcontainers.org/⟩. If you have a bug report for this
manual page, send it to [email protected]. This
page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
⟨https://github.com/lxc/lxc.git⟩ on 2025-08-11. (At that time,
the date of the most recent commit that was found in the
repository was 2025-07-29.) If you discover any rendering
problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is
a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
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(which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
[email protected]
2024-04-03 lxc-freeze(1)
Pages that refer to this page: lxc-attach(1), lxc-autostart(1), lxc-cgroup(1), lxc-checkconfig(1), lxc-checkpoint(1), lxc-config(1), lxc-console(1), lxc-copy(1), lxc-create(1), lxc-destroy(1), lxc-device(1), lxc-execute(1), lxc-freeze(1), lxc-info(1), lxc-ls(1), lxc-monitor(1), lxc-snapshot(1), lxc-start(1), lxc-stop(1), lxc-top(1), lxc-unfreeze(1), lxc-unshare(1), lxc-update-config(1), lxc-usernsexec(1), lxc-wait(1), lxc.container.conf(5), lxc.system.conf(5), lxc(7)