So, now that I have more time, I wanted to elaborate a little on LXC, Docker, et al.
I've never played with straight LXC, though at one point in my career I got to play around with OpenVZ quite a bit (LXC is supposed to be OpenVZ done right). The first time I played around with Docker, it was on my notebook while I was doing other stuff, and well, let's just be glad for autosave; I totally crashed and burned. Doesn't help that I run Arch on my notebook, and that... well, it forces you to learn lessons pretty quick sometimes. A couple of days later I set it up on a CentOS server in the closet, this time following a tutorial somewhere, and things went much better. I spun up an Ubuntu image and a CentOS image with no problems, and then promptly did nothing else with it. Anyway, even if you're just playing with LXC, the images on the Docker index might be worth taking a look at. I've recently been told about another container that the Googles are doing called Let Me Contain That For You (I love the name): https://github.com/google/lmctfy/ Looks like the same kind of thing as LXC (though I hear they went in a different direction), and Docker may be supporting it soon. Might be worth checking out. On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Michael Torrie <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ -- "In order to create, you have to have the willingness, the desire to be challenged, to be learning." -- Ferran Adria (speaking at Harvard, 2011) /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
