Has anyone on the list use LXC containers?  I was thinking today that
maybe they'd be ideal for installing several desktop distros
simultaneously and using them on my desktop with full access to the
video hardware.  I never have had good luck running things like Gnome
Shell or Cinnamon in a virtual machine (either KVM or VirtualBox).  It'd
be nice to be able to try out the full distro experience without wiping
my current install. I realize all LXC containers share the same kernel,
so I'd have to have a fairly modern distro running as host.  I did some
quick research and found a couple of people saying they run their
desktop environment in a LXC with full nvidia binary drivers even.
Apparently you just need to make sure the right device nodes are thunked
through into the container (say /dev/dri or /dev/nvidia*) and that the
GL drivers match the kernel driver version.

Anyone had experience with LXC that would like to share his or her
experience?

thanks

Michael

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