Originally Posted by edp17

Yes, you were right there was a typo in the command. I have fixed that. Thanks, for the heads up.

When you start manually, first you need to start the container, then you need to enter into it in a command line:

Code:

sudo lxc-attach -n <container_name>

then within there run the command:

Code:

/mnt/guest/start_desktop.sh 0

or

with one command:

Code:

sudo lxc-attach -n <container_name> -- /mnt/guest/start_desktop.sh 0 &

Please check the scripts (Some useful scripts: section) that I provided for manual start from the command line.
Those scripts do start the container if they are not running then issuing the command above to start the desktop.
When you see the message "Waiting for x-window" wait for a while, then after a while, your desktop will appear. For me, I need to wait for around a half or a minute to get the desktop screen.