Create Debian8 and CentOS7 LXC containers on Archlinux host Using LXC to create Debian 8 and CentOS 7 containers require to play with AUR. In order to ease the work: # pacman -S base-devel In /etc/pacman.conf [archlinuxfr] SigLevel = Never Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/$arch # pacman -S lxc arch-install-scripts netctl # pacman -S yaourt $ yaourt -S debootstrap yum This last command will pull several packages from AUR then expect some long time compiling I dont really know why, but I had to reboot to have everything working smoothly. Create a CentOS7 container # export CONTAINER_NAME=c7-00 # lxc-create -t centos --name ${CONTAINER_NAME} -- --release 7 --arch x86_64 \ --repo YOU_CUSTOM_REPO Then edit the configuration: # nano -w /var/lib/lxc/${CONTAINER_NAME}/config Mine looks like this lxc.rootfs = /var/lib/lxc/c7-00/rootfs lxc.include = /usr/share/lxc/config/centos.common.conf lxc.arch = x86_64 lxc.utsname