Update 22 June 2020 I have updated this post to be compatible with LXD 4.0. I also adapted it in order to create an empty profile that does only the macvlan stuff and is independent of the default profile. Finally, I am calling the profile macvlan (previous name: lanprofile). WARNING #1: By using macvlan, your …
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Jan 03 2018
How to preconfigure LXD containers with cloud-init
The original post here is now obsolete and it has been replaced by the following: Simos Xenitellisblog.simos.info/
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Dec 29 2017
Installing retdec on Ubuntu
retdec (RETargetable DECompiler) is a decompiler, and it is the one that was released recently as open-source software by Avast Software. retdec can take an executable and work back into recreating the initial source code (with limitations). An example with retdec Let’s see first an example. Here is the initial source code, that was compiled …
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Dec 14 2017
multipass, management of virtual machines running Ubuntu
If you want to run a machine container, you would use LXD. But if you want to run a virtual machine, you would use multipass. multipass is so new, that is still in beta. The name is not known yet to Google, and you get many weird results when you search for it. Both containers …
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Dec 05 2017
How to migrate LXD from DEB/PPA package to Snap package
You are using LXD from a Linux distribution package and you would like to migrate your existing installation to the Snap LXD package. Let’s do the migration together! This post is not about live container migration in LXD. Live container migration is about moving a running container from one LXD server to another. If you …
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Dec 02 2017
How to set the timezone in LXD containers
See https://blog.simos.info/trying-out-lxd-containers-on-our-ubuntu/ on how to set up and test LXD on Ubuntu (or another Linux distribution). In this post we see how to set up the timezone in a newly created container. The problem The default timezone for a newly created container is Etc/UTC, which is what we used to call Greenwich Mean Time. Let’s …
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