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How to run a Windows virtual machine on Incus on Linux

Incus is a manager for virtual machines and system containers. A virtual machine (VM) is an instance of an operating system that runs on a computer, along with the main operating system. A virtual machine uses hardware virtualization features for the separation from the main operating system. With virtual machines, the full operating system boots …

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How to compile Incus

Incus is a manager for virtual machines and system containers. A virtual machine is an instance of an operating system that runs on a computer, along with the main operating system. A virtual machine uses hardware virtualization features for the separation from the main operating system. A system container is an instance of an operating …

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Migrating to Incus from LXD

Incus is a manager for virtual machines and system containers. A virtual machine is an instance of an operating system that runs on a computer, along with the main operating system. A virtual machine uses hardware virtualization features for the separation from the main operating system. A system container is an instance of an operating …

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Reconnecting your LXD installation to the ZFS storage pool

You are using LXD and you are creating many containers. Those containers are stored in a dedicated ZFS pool, and LXD is managing this ZFS pool exclusively. But disaster strucks, and LXD loses its database and forgets about your containers. Your data is there in the ZFS pool, but LXD has forgotten them because its …

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Using distrobuilder to create container images for LXC and LXD

With LXC and LXD you can run system containers, which are containers that behave like a full operating system (like a Virtual Machine does). There are already official container images for most Linux distributions. When you run lxc launch ubuntu:18.04 mycontainer, you are using the ubuntu: repository of container images to launch a container with …

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