diff --git a/execdriver/driver.go b/execdriver/driver.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..225f23cf26
--- /dev/null
+++ b/execdriver/driver.go
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+package execdriver
+
+import (
+	"io"
+	"net"
+)
+
+// Network settings of the container
+type Network struct {
+	Gateway     string
+	IPAddress   net.IPAddr
+	IPPrefixLen int
+	Mtu         int
+}
+
+// Container / Process / Whatever, we can redefine the conatiner here
+// to be what it should be and not have to carry the baggage of the
+// container type in the core with backward compat.  This is what a
+// driver needs to execute a process inside of a conatiner.  This is what
+// a container is at it's core.
+type Container struct {
+	Name        string // unique name for the conatienr
+	Privileged  bool
+	User        string
+	Dir         string // root fs of the container
+	InitPath    string // dockerinit
+	Entrypoint  string
+	Args        []string
+	Environment map[string]string
+	WorkingDir  string
+	Network     *Network // if network is nil then networking is disabled
+	Stdin       io.Reader
+	Stdout      io.Writer
+	Stderr      io.Writer
+
+	Context interface{}
+}
+
+// State can be handled internally in the drivers
+type Driver interface {
+	Start(c *Container) error
+	Stop(c *Container) error
+	Kill(c *Container, sig int) error
+	Running(c *Container) (bool, error)
+	Wait(c *Container, seconds int) error
+}
diff --git a/execdriver/lxc/driver.go b/execdriver/lxc/driver.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c146571970
--- /dev/null
+++ b/execdriver/lxc/driver.go
@@ -0,0 +1,144 @@
+package lxc
+
+import (
+	"github.com/dotcloud/docker/execdriver"
+	"os/exec"
+	"strconv"
+	"sync"
+	"syscall"
+)
+
+const (
+	startPath = "lxc-start"
+)
+
+type driver struct {
+	containerLock map[string]*sync.Mutex
+}
+
+func NewDriver() (execdriver.Driver, error) {
+	// setup unconfined symlink
+}
+
+func (d *driver) Start(c *execdriver.Container) error {
+	l := d.getLock(c)
+	l.Lock()
+	defer l.Unlock()
+
+	running, err := d.running(c)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if running {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	configPath, err := d.generateConfig(c)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	params := []string{
+		startPath,
+		"-n", c.Name,
+		"-f", configPath,
+		"--",
+		c.InitPath,
+	}
+
+	if c.Network != nil {
+		params = append(params,
+			"-g", c.Network.Gateway,
+			"-i", fmt.Sprintf("%s/%d", c.Network.IPAddress, c.Network, IPPrefixLen),
+			"-mtu", c.Network.Mtu,
+		)
+	}
+
+	if c.User != "" {
+		params = append(params, "-u", c.User)
+	}
+
+	if c.Privileged {
+		params = append(params, "-privileged")
+	}
+
+	if c.WorkingDir != "" {
+		params = append(params, "-w", c.WorkingDir)
+	}
+
+	params = append(params, "--", c.Entrypoint)
+	params = append(params, c.Args...)
+
+	cmd := exec.Command(params[0], params[1:]...)
+	cmd.SysProcAttr = &syscall.SysProcAttr{Setsid: true}
+
+	cmd.Stdout = c.Stdout
+	cmd.Stderr = c.Stderr
+	cmd.Stdin = c.Stdin
+
+	if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	// Poll for running
+	if err := d.waitForStart(cmd, c); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (d *driver) Stop(c *execdriver.Container) error {
+	l := d.getLock(c)
+	l.Lock()
+	defer l.Unlock()
+
+	if err := d.kill(c, 15); err != nil {
+		if err := d.kill(c, 9); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+
+	if err := d.wait(c, 10); err != nil {
+		return d.kill(c, 9)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (d *driver) Wait(c *execdriver.Container, seconds int) error {
+	l := d.getLock(c)
+	l.Lock()
+	defer l.Unlock()
+
+	return d.wait(c, seconds)
+}
+
+// If seconds < 0 then wait forever
+func (d *driver) wait(c *execdriver.Container, seconds int) error {
+
+}
+
+func (d *driver) kill(c *execdriver.Container, sig int) error {
+	return exec.Command("lxc-kill", "-n", c.Name, strconv.Itoa(sig)).Run()
+}
+
+func (d *driver) running(c *execdriver.Container) (bool, error) {
+
+}
+
+// Generate the lxc configuration and return the path to the file
+func (d *driver) generateConfig(c *execdriver.Container) (string, error) {
+
+}
+
+func (d *driver) waitForStart(cmd *exec.Cmd, c *execdriver.Container) error {
+
+}
+
+func (d *driver) getLock(c *execdriver.Container) *sync.Mutex {
+	l, ok := d.containerLock[c.Name]
+	if !ok {
+		l = &sync.Mutex{}
+		d.containerLock[c.Name] = l
+	}
+	return l
+}