LXD is now under Canonical

Re:LXD is now under Canonical by snapplebobapple on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @09:42PM (#36594633)

Me too. Turns out alpine is better for server vms for my use case and cachyos is better for desktop for my use case as wrll (at least possibly until i figure out nixos)

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Re:LXD is now under Canonical by nine_k on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @10:23PM (#36594860)

While at it, have you tried Void Linux? Sort of lightweight like Alpine, but much more convenient as a daily driver.

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Re:LXD is now under Canonical by stock_toaster on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @10:03PM (#36594751)

I'm also a big fan of alpine on the server.

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Re:LXD is now under Canonical by maxvu on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @10:51PM (#36595009)

I recently transitioned on the desktop from Debian then-testing to Alpine edge. I switched for a newer kernel (4.9 to 6.1 for recent fixes to busted microcode -- little annoyances around charging and the touchpad) but I like a lot of things about it: quick install, up-to-date repos, easy-to-understand init, battery lasts longer...

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Re:LXD is now under Canonical by generalizations on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @11:18PM (#36595162)

Do you use alpine for the host os as well as the vms? Been concerned that musl would prove a handicap.

Also, can confirm void is amazing on the desktop.

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Re:LXD is now under Canonical by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @01:21AM (#36595792)

I would expect musl to be less of a problem for the host than guests, though, since a VM/container host only needs to run packaged software from the distro's official repos (mostly libvirt/docker, probably). What problem would you expect to hit?

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Re:LXD is now under Canonical by 3np on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @02:10AM (#36596114)

Can confirm alpine works fine as a libvirtd/kvm/qemu hypervisor, fwiw.

The one gotcha to be aware of here is that libvirtd as of now has two ways to be operated: Either run just the monolithic libvirtd service, or individual subsystems like virtstoraged. Trying to do both at the same time will cause issues.

Due to the limitations of OpenRC compared to systemd for interdependent and interoperating system services like this, I stuck with the monolthic libvirtd approach and it's been running fine so far.

https://libvirt.org/daemons.html#architectural-options

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Re:LXD is now under Canonical by egberts1 on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @05:51AM (#36598082)

Oh yeah, I hated that when systemd would kill (restart) my libvirtd daemon (and my various VMs/containers whenever I adjusted my systemd-controlled nftable.

Monolithic libvirtd (which is disabling the systemd libvirt) is the way to go.

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Re:LXD is now under Canonical by generalizations on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @11:16AM (#36601589)

Nice, thanks. Though I was going to try using Xen on there, rather than kvm - any experience/thoughts on that?

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Re:LXD is now under Canonical by 3np on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @01:34PM (#36603842)

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Re:LXD is now under Canonical by generalizations on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @08:43PM (#36609392)

Ha, sounds good. If I remember to I'll necropost ya when I work on it. Otherwise you may see me begging for help on the alpine IRC.

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Re:LXD is now under Canonical by snapplebobapple on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @03:44PM (#36606041)

no, proxmox is too good not to use. That runs on the bare metal and then the vms are all alpine at this point.

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