The lxd-p2c utility helps you to migrate your physical servers to LXD containers. Dan Mac Donald wrote a tutorial with practical instructions on how to perform such a migration. There has been a recent discussion on compiling lxd-p2c and I am summarizing here. You would run lxd-p2c on a physical server that is to be …
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Feb 27 2021
How to run a Windows virtual machine on LXD on Linux
Update 27th April 2021: The post has been updated and rechecked. Now, the stable version of distrobuilder is able to repack-windows and you do not need use the version from the edge channel. LXD is a hypervisor to run both system containers (a la LXC) and virtual machines (a la QEMU) on Linux distributions. System …
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Aug 05 2020
Using the radare2 snap package
radare2 is a tool for reverse-engineering software. It is quite versatile, and can deal either with binary files of executable code, or even attach to a running process. Packaging (making available an installation package for end-users) is always an issue, especially when the software gets updated often. There is in the works a snap package …
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Aug 07 2019
How to know when a LXD container has finished starting up
You have just run lxc launch ubuntu:18.04 mycontainer and a new container is being created. The command returns very quickly (around 1-2s) and the container image starts running. The container image may take a few more seconds to complete, so that the init performs all the required tasks. The problem The question is, how do …
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Jun 28 2018
How to run HelloWorld in radare2 (installed from a snap package)
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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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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