Hi guys!
The same way I hold some VMs for some apps I might not trust well enough to share with the rest of my OS/partition, I’d like to be able to do the same, but with LXC instead, possibly reducing overhead (and perhaps increasing ache in the head). I was wondering if the GUI Virt-manager can do this? It seems after installing libvirt-daemon-lxc, libvirtd, libvirt-client-qemu I’m able to connect to the LXC daemon in my system. However, I’m not sure how to follow a similar process as perhaps Proxmox, to build a, say, fully blown ubuntu LXC from a template. How should I do this?
Thanks!
Yes, you can.
Thanks…That’s my fault. I guess I wanted to mention I was looking for a GUI-like way of doing it. Same way virt-manager does. It handles libvirt in the background, but I guess a nice more intuitive manner of following a process to create a VM. I wanted to see if I can do something similar for a container.
virt-manager is able to work wit lxc. Add a new connection of type Libvirt-LXC.
Yup! I got that far. But when I try to create a new VM/container using LXC instead, I’m prompted for an URI. i have no idea what I’m supposed to enter there. In Proxmox it just downloads the templates itself from its own repository, but i have no idea what I’m supposed to input here. I didn’t find any guide about this :(
It asks for a path to a root directory of a bootstraped container. You can create it with
debootstrap,rinse,pacstrap,alpine-chroot-install,virt-bootstrapetc.Thank you for the information! Since Proxmox does this by itself with those templates it uses, I never did this process. I guess I’ll check some guide…thanks a lot!
virt-manager supports, at least, kvm and lxc/incus, so you should be fine.
Yeah…So far I managed to connect virt-manager to the LXC daemon after a few attempts, but I’m a bit stuck now. In order to create a new LXC container it asks for an URI and I don’t know which one should I put.
There’s much more tooling for containerd containers than there is for LXC
Hmmm I might be open to try. But my idea would be to have the equivalent of a local full blown VM running with its own desktop environment. But on a container. I can do this in proxmox, but I’d like to replicate it locally on my laptop.
There’s a GUI for containerd?
I’m not sure about virt-manager, but there is Incus. I have a server coming soon that I am going to test it out on. https://github.com/lxc/incus.
Thanks! I was hoping it would have its own GUI, not having to run from a webUI…Kinda makes integration with a virtual desktop a bit easier. I’d like to have the equivalent of a virtualbox VM, with desktop etc, but running on a container.
Forgot about that. Think there are a few. Here is an example. https://github.com/osamuaoki/incus-ui-canonical
Edit: Here’s another. https://github.com/PenningLabs/lxconsole
Thanks…The first one might actually be a normal GUI. However I don’t see a way to compile it for non-debian (I’m running Nobara, which is Fedora-based). The second one is definitely a webUI.
