diff --git a/container.go b/container.go
index d5dbddb773..549449080c 100644
--- a/container.go
+++ b/container.go
@@ -747,6 +747,7 @@ func (container *Container) Start(hostConfig *HostConfig) error {
 	}
 
 	params := []string{
+		"lxc-start",
 		"-n", container.ID,
 		"-f", container.lxcConfigPath(),
 		"--",
@@ -795,7 +796,21 @@ func (container *Container) Start(hostConfig *HostConfig) error {
 	params = append(params, "--", container.Path)
 	params = append(params, container.Args...)
 
-	container.cmd = exec.Command("lxc-start", params...)
+	if RootIsShared() {
+		// lxc-start really needs / to be private, or all kinds of stuff break
+		// What we really want is to clone into a new namespace and then
+		// mount / MS_REC|MS_PRIVATE, but since we can't really clone or fork
+		// without exec in go we have to do this horrible shell hack...
+		shellString :=
+			"mount --make-rprivate /; exec " +
+			utils.ShellQuoteArguments(params)
+
+		params = []string{
+			"unshare", "-m", "--", "/bin/sh", "-c",	shellString,
+		}
+	}
+
+	container.cmd = exec.Command(params[0], params[1:]...)
 
 	// Setup logging of stdout and stderr to disk
 	if err := container.runtime.LogToDisk(container.stdout, container.logPath("json"), "stdout"); err != nil {
diff --git a/utils.go b/utils.go
index aed8ffdd76..babca65bf1 100644
--- a/utils.go
+++ b/utils.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package docker
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"io/ioutil"
 	"strings"
 )
 
@@ -167,3 +168,17 @@ func parseLxcOpt(opt string) (string, string, error) {
 	}
 	return strings.TrimSpace(parts[0]), strings.TrimSpace(parts[1]), nil
 }
+
+func RootIsShared() bool {
+	if data, err := ioutil.ReadFile("/proc/self/mountinfo"); err == nil {
+		for _, line := range strings.Split(string(data), "\n") {
+			cols := strings.Split(line, " ")
+			if cols[3] == "/" && cols[4] == "/" {
+				return strings.HasPrefix(cols[6], "shared")
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	// No idea, probably safe to assume so
+	return true
+}