Tag: socket

Running X11 software in LXD containers

Update February 2021: See the Notes below for extra steps when trying this on the Raspberry Pi 4. 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 …

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How to manage LXD from within one of its containers

In a LXD (lex-dee) installation there is the host (where the LXD service is running) and there are the containers that you create. On the host, you can run the various lxc subcommands (like lxc list to get a list of the containers). The containers, on the other hand, are by default confined and isolated …

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