Your initial comment mentions experimentation with lxd - did you mean experiment with lxc? The level of abstraction is very different (this is the raison-d'être

Your initial comment mentions experimentation with lxd - did you mean experiment with lxc? The level of abstraction is very different (this is the raison-d'être for lxd, after all!). Lxc is somewhat to lxd as jails are to ezjails...