Running lxc with zfs backing store, in Ubuntu 14.04, within a virtualbox virtual machine

provision.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# ubuntu/trusty64

apt-get update
apt-get install software-properties-common -y

apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-lxc/daily
add-apt-repository ppa:zfs-native/stable
add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/stable -y

apt-get update
apt-get install lxc ubuntu-zfs nginx -y

echo "Creating zfs disk..."
dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/zfsdisk1.img bs=1024 count=10485760 # 10gb
zpool create lxc /root/zfsdisk1.img
zpool set listsnapshots=on lxc

echo "Setting up lxc..."
rmdir /var/lib/lxc
ln -s /lxc /var/lib/
lxc-create -t ubuntu -n ubuntu -B zfs

echo "Done!"