added allowrunning command line option for snapshotting alive containers

[mirror_lxc.git] / src / lxc / lxccontainer.c

diff --git a/src/lxc/lxccontainer.c b/src/lxc/lxccontainer.c
index 9941d646aa226db8578dc186765ff34f22bf0496..63a66709898897f18910956a613301480e9a73ca 100644 (file)
--- a/src/lxc/lxccontainer.c
+++ b/src/lxc/lxccontainer.c
@@ -3799,9 +3799,8 @@ static struct lxc_container *do_lxcapi_clone(struct lxc_container *c, const char
 
        if (container_mem_lock(c))
                return NULL;
-
-       if (!is_stopped(c)) {
-               ERROR("error: Original container (%s) is running", c->name);
+       if (!is_stopped(c) && !(flags & LXC_CLONE_ALLOW_RUNNING)) {
+               ERROR("error: Original container (%s) is running. Use --allowrunning if you want to force a snapshot of the running container.", c->name);
                goto out;
        }