On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 09:49:23AM +0100, Stéphane Graber wrote: > Hey there, > > Ubuntu's libvirt currently ships with its own Linux Containers > implementation (confusingly called libvirt-lxc). > > This code has nothing to do with upstream LXC, confuses users who expect > that it does and is in general a much worse experience that the one we > provide through LXD in Ubuntu. > > We'd rather not have to maintain that feature in main and given that > libvirt backends can't be split into separate packages (at least > trivially), we're now looking at turning libvirt-lxc altogether. > > Red Hat, who was the main driver for this particular driver has also dropped > support for it back in March 2015[1] (in favor of Docker support).
In the interest of fairness, note that while rh dropped support, *libvirt* did not. Please make sure to seek input from the openstack types, as they would probably be the most likely to be using libvirt-lxc. > If you are a current user of libvirt-lxc, we'd be very interested to > hear from you about your use case for it, especially about anything > which libvirt-lxc is providing which you can't achieve with LXC/LXD. > > Thanks! > > [1] https://access.redhat.com/articles/1365153 > > -- > Stéphane Graber > Ubuntu developer > http://www.ubuntu.com > -- > ubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
