Thanks a ton, Bryan! I know many users have been concerned with the hefty memory requirements (not to mention VT-x requirements) of MW-Vagrant+VirtualBox, especially on lower end hardware. This should be a huge help.
Labs users can definitely look to benefit from this feature as well (once the Vagrant 1.7.x kinks are worked out [0]). [0]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/193665/ On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Bryan Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > We have working support for installing MediaWiki-Vagrant in an LXC > container now! > > See the instructions in support/README-lxc.md [0] for a description of > how to use it from a Ubuntu 14.04 host computer. Patches are welcome > giving alternate instructions for other distributions. Note that > Vagrant 1.7+ is required for the latest version of the vagrant-lxc > plugin that this uses so you will probably not be able to install > Vagrant from a package repo unless you are running Debian unstable. > > Making using MediaWiki-Vagrant a lighter weight experience for users > who are running Linux on their laptops. I took a shot at this right > after Wikimania last year by figuring out how to use MediaWiki-Vagrant > to provision a Docker container. That experiment made a system that we > too unstable for me to promote anyone using it as more than a proof of > concept. Since then I've "been meaning to" try out LXC by using the > vagrant-lxc plugin [1] and last weekend I finally found the time. > Thanks to Marko Obrovac and Dan Duvall for helping test this. > > [0]: > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MWVA/browse/master/support/README-lxc.md > [1]: https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-lxc > -- > Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <[email protected]> > [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA > irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Dan Duvall Automation Engineer Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
