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

submitted 20 hours 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 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, you can.

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 1 points 49 minutes ago

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.

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

virt-manager supports, at least, kvm and lxc/incus, so you should be fine.

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 1 points 48 minutes ago

Yeah...So far I managed to connect virt-manager to the LXC daemon after a few attempts, but I'm a bit stuck now. In order to create a new LXC container it asks for an URI and I don't know which one should I put.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 2 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

There's much more tooling for containerd containers than there is for LXC

[–] marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago

There's a GUI for containerd?

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 2 points 18 hours ago

Hmmm I might be open to try. But my idea would be to have the equivalent of a local full blown VM running with its own desktop environment. But on a container. I can do this in proxmox, but I'd like to replicate it locally on my laptop.

[–] denshirenji@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not sure about virt-manager, but there is Incus. I have a server coming soon that I am going to test it out on. https://github.com/lxc/incus.

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks! I was hoping it would have its own GUI, not having to run from a webUI...Kinda makes integration with a virtual desktop a bit easier. I'd like to have the equivalent of a virtualbox VM, with desktop etc, but running on a container.

[–] denshirenji@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Forgot about that. Think there are a few. Here is an example. https://github.com/osamuaoki/incus-ui-canonical

Edit: Here's another. https://github.com/PenningLabs/lxconsole

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 1 points 34 minutes ago

Thanks...The first one might actually be a normal GUI. However I don't see a way to compile it for non-debian (I'm running Nobara, which is Fedora-based). The second one is definitely a webUI.