Well, this was opened as a trusty issue, and in my memory it was only on trusty, but here is an attempt that fails on trusty or utopic host. I know that when we did this, there was no systemd-sysv package, so my attempt was more to invoke /lib/systemd/systemd as the init comand.
$ sudo apt-get update -q && sudo apt-get install -qy lxc </dev/null $ sudo lxc-create -t ubuntu-cloud -n source-utopic-amd64 -- \ --release=utopic --arch=amd64 --stream=daily $ sudo lxc-clone -o source-utopic-amd64 -n u1 $ sudo lxc-start -n u1 ## logged in as ubuntu:ubuntu % sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -qy systemd-sysv </dev/null && sync $ sudo lxc-stop --kill -n u1 $ sudo lxc-start -n u1 systemd 208 running in system mode. (+PAM +LIBWRAP +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +SYSVINIT +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +ACL +XZ) Detected virtualization 'lxc'. Welcome to Ubuntu Utopic Unicorn (development branch)! Failed to insert module 'autofs4' Set hostname to <u1>. /etc/mtab is not a symlink or not pointing to /proc/self/mounts. This is not supported anymore. Please make sure to replace this file by a symlink to avoid incorrect or misleading mount(8) output. No control group support available, not creating root group. [/lib/systemd/system/friendly-recovery.service:14] Executable path is not absolute, ignoring: dmesg --console-off Cannot add dependency job for unit systemd-vconsole-setup.service, ignoring: Unit systemd-vconsole-setup.service failed to load: No such file or directory. Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. [ OK ] Listening on Syslog Socket. [ OK ] Reached target Remote File Systems (Pre). [ OK ] Listening on /dev/initctl Compatibility Named Pipe. [ OK ] Listening on Delayed Shutdown Socket. Failed to open /dev/autofs: No such file or directory Failed to initialize automounter: No such file or directory [FAILED] Failed to set up automount Arbitrary Executable File Forma... Automount Point. See 'systemctl status proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.automount' for details. Unit proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.automount entered failed state. [ OK ] Reached target Encrypted Volumes. [ OK ] Listening on Journal Socket. Mounting Huge Pages File System... Caught <SEGV>, dumped core as pid 11. Freezing execution. ** Also affects: lxc (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to lxc in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1347020 Title: trusty host - utopic lxc container cloudimage boot with systemd does not work Status in “cloud-init” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “lxc” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Opening against cloud-init for now, but ultimately might end up as bug-fixes / srus against some other packages in trusty. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1347020/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp