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Can I create/spin LXC with virt-manager or something similar?

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  • denshirenji@lemmy.worldD [email protected]

    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.

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    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.

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    • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.eeI [email protected]

      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.

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      Forgot about that. Think there are a few. Here is an example. https://github.com/osamuaoki/incus-ui-canonical

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        There's much more tooling for containerd containers than there is for LXC

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        There's a GUI for containerd?

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        • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.eeI [email protected]

          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!

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          Yes, you can.

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            Yes, you can.

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            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.

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              virt-manager supports, at least, kvm and lxc/incus, so you should be fine.

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              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.

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              • denshirenji@lemmy.worldD [email protected]

                Forgot about that. Think there are a few. Here is an example. https://github.com/osamuaoki/incus-ui-canonical

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                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.

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                • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.eeI [email protected]

                  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.

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                  virt-manager is able to work wit lxc. Add a new connection of type Libvirt-LXC.

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                    virt-manager is able to work wit lxc. Add a new connection of type Libvirt-LXC.

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                    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 😞

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                    • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.eeI [email protected]

                      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 😞

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                      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-bootstrap etc.

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                        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-bootstrap etc.

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                        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!

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