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Can I create/spin LXC with virt-manager or something similar? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 days ago by iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi guys!

The same way I hold some VMs for some apps I might not trust well enough to share with the rest of my OS/partition, I'd like to be able to do the same, but with LXC instead, possibly reducing overhead (and perhaps increasing ache in the head). I was wondering if the GUI Virt-manager can do this? It seems after installing libvirt-daemon-lxc, libvirtd, libvirt-client-qemu I'm able to connect to the LXC daemon in my system. However, I'm not sure how to follow a similar process as perhaps Proxmox, to build a, say, fully blown ubuntu LXC from a template. How should I do this?

Thanks!

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[–] bizdelnick@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes, you can.

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thanks...That's my fault. I guess I wanted to mention I was looking for a GUI-like way of doing it. Same way virt-manager does. It handles libvirt in the background, but I guess a nice more intuitive manner of following a process to create a VM. I wanted to see if I can do something similar for a container.

[–] bizdelnick@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

virt-manager is able to work wit lxc. Add a new connection of type Libvirt-LXC.

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yup! I got that far. But when I try to create a new VM/container using LXC instead, I'm prompted for an URI. i have no idea what I'm supposed to enter there. In Proxmox it just downloads the templates itself from its own repository, but i have no idea what I'm supposed to input here. I didn't find any guide about this :(

[–] bizdelnick@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It asks for a path to a root directory of a bootstraped container. You can create it with debootstrap, rinse, pacstrap, alpine-chroot-install, virt-bootstrap etc.

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Thank you for the information! Since Proxmox does this by itself with those templates it uses, I never did this process. I guess I'll check some guide...thanks a lot!