You can write instructions in a language like English, just like I do now with this blog post. If you want to write instructions for a computer, you are likely to use some sort of intermediate language that will then be converted into raw instructions suitable for the computer. Those intermediate languages are the programming …
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Jun 25 2018
How to easily run graphics-accelerated GUI apps in LXD containers on your Ubuntu desktop
UPDATE June 2020: See newer post at https://blog.simos.info/running-x11-software-in-lxd-containers/ for simplified instructions. They require a recent LXD (version 4.0 or newer), and snap packages work. Note: This post is about LXD containers. These are system containers, which means they are similar to Docker but behave somewhat like virtual machines. When you start a LXD (lex-dee) container, …
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Mar 26 2018
How to try LXD 3.0 beta
LXD is a container hypervisor/lighter-visor for Linux distributions. You kinda get the effect of a Linux virtual machine but using Linux containers instead. You can consider them as lightweight virtual machines. Currently, LXD is at version 2 (2.21) and soonish version 3.0 will be released. In this post we see how to get to try …
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Feb 21 2018
How to repartition a Hetzner VPS disk for ZFS on its own partition for LXD
In that post, we saw how to set up LXD on a Hetzner VPS (Hetzner Cloud). The particular VPS comes with a fixed size partition, and we had to put the LXD containers in a loopback device file, not on its own partition. The reason is that once the VPS is booted up, you cannot …
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Feb 20 2018
How to run TeamViewer in LXD
TeamViewer is a popular remote desktop tool. It is the typical tool to use, in order to help remotely your colleagues that keep using Windows. You can install TeamViewer on Linux using these instructions on installing TeamViewer on Linux. In this post though, you will install TeamViewer in a LXD (pronounced LexDee) container on your …
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Feb 14 2018
How to use the X2Go remote desktop with LXD containers
I would like to thank Brian Mullan for sharing his notes on getting X2Go to work on LXD containers. Prior to this, I never used X2Go before. You would typically use LXD (pronounced LexDee) containers to run server software. However, you can also run GUI apps. If the LXD containers are located on your desktop …
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