You are using LXD containers and you want a container (or more) to get an IP address from the LAN (or, get an IP address just like the host does). LXD currently supports four ways to do that, and depending on your needs, you select the appropriate way. Using macvlan. See https://blog.simos.info/how-to-make-your-lxd-container-get-ip-addresses-from-your-lan/ Using bridged. See …
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Mar 05 2020
Using command aliases in LXD to exec a shell
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
How to view the files of your LXD container from the host
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
How to use virtual machines in LXD
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
Running X11 software in LXD containers
With LXD you can run system containers, which are similar to virtual machines. Normally, you would use a system container to run network services. But you can also run X11 applications. See the following discussion and come back here. In this post, we further refine and simplify the instructions for the second way to run …
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Dec 08 2019
Discussion on running X11 applications from within LXD system containers
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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