Apr 03 2020
Average Linux User has created a Youtube video on 30 This to do After Installing Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. It is a well-prepared, high-quality, informative video. I recommend watching it. There are a couple of nitpicks though, and in this post I go into detail about them. See the Discussion below. First, here is the Youtube …
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Mar 05 2020
First, create a container mycontainer with the command lxc launch ubuntu: mycontainer. This command creates a container with the currently default LTS version (at the time of writing, 18.04, soon it will be 20.04). You are using LXD, you can launch containers and get a shell into them using the following lxc command. This command …
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Feb 03 2020
You are creating LXD containers and you enter a container (lxc shell, lxc exec or lxc console) in order to view or modify the files of that container. But can you access the filesystem of the container from the host? If you use the LXD snap package, LXD mounts the filesystem of the container in …
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Jan 24 2020
Update 22 May 2020: The Ubuntu container images have been updated to install on first boot the LXD Agent in the VM. The corresponding section below has been updated so that you can skip the manual step, if your VM image does it for you. Update 22 May 2020: See also the tutorial at https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/running-virtual-machines-with-lxd-4-0/7519 …
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Dec 09 2019
Updated instructions for LXD 4.5 (September 2020) LXD 4.5 has added features that make proxy devices more secure in the sense that if something goes wrong on the proxy device, your system is safer. Specifically, the proxy devices are now under AppArmor confinement. In doing so, however, something broke and it was not possible to …
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Dec 08 2019
With LXD, you can create system containers. These system containers are similar to virtual machines, while at the same time they are very lightweight. In a VM, you boot a full Linux kernel and you run your favorite Linux distribution in a virtualized environment that has a fixed disk size and dedicated allocation of RAM …
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