I did a quick test running vagrant with the lxc provider inside Ubuntu 14.10 in a Parallels VM on my Mac -- it works! (Didn't yet try re-exporting the /vagrant dirs to the host Mac OS X system but it should be doable using standard sharing tools.)
Downside currently is that it doesn't seem to support *transparently* using a VM as the container host the way the Vagrant Docker provider claims to -- it looks like you have to install and use the Vagrant CLI tools within the VM. But, it has the plus that you can use a stock VM if you're going to run Linux anyway. This is a plus for me as I use VMs for a lot of testing and prefer Parallels for its much better/faster graphics support. (I had been making do with VMWare Fusion and the for-pay VMWare provider plugin for Vagrant, but VMWare's drivers are a lot slower.) Note that LXC doesn't require enabling nested virtualization or anything super-scary like that, so it ought to work in any VM host. Notes: * install Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty in a Parallels VM ** disabled various Parallels sharing options to make sure it's not hogging my home dir ** kicked RAM from default 1gb to 2gb for headroom * install vagrant 1.7.2 (current) from vagrantup.com * $ vagrant plugin install vagrant-lxc * $ vagrant up --provider=lxc ** NFS failed? * did the apparmor config thing from the readme https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MWVA/browse/master/support/README-lxc.md * $ vagrant destroy * $ vagrant up --provider=lxc -- brion On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Bryan Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Awesome! > > > > Is it possible to use a Linux VM as the actual LXC container on a Mac or > > Windows host system, as with Vagrant's Docker provider? > > > > This could allow consolidating multiple Vagrant instances on one VM, or > > sharing a VM between Vagrant and a Linux GUI used for testing or > specialty > > apps. > > > > Well, to half-answer my question: > https://taoofmac.com/space/HOWTO/Vagrant > > indicates it's at least possible, though it doesn't seem to be as > > conveniently packaged up as Boot2Docker yet. :) > > I started playing with a setup based on that Tao of Mac post on Sunday > but I didn't get to the point of having a fully working solution yet. > With a little more experimentation I hope to have a Vagrantfile and > base box that you could drop in $HOME or a similar common directory > that boots a Linux VM that is all setup to run vagrant-lxc inside it. > In the short term I'll probably focus more on the labs-vagrant > replacement use case in my spare time however so feel free to beat me > to the more general solution. :) > > Bryan > -- > 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 > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
