Can I create/spin LXC with virt-manager or something similar?

Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

Hi guys!

The same way I hold some VMs for some apps I might not trust well enough to share with the rest of my OS/partition, I’d like to be able to do the same, but with LXC instead, possibly reducing overhead (and perhaps increasing ache in the head). I was wondering if the GUI Virt-manager can do this? It seems after installing libvirt-daemon-lxc, libvirtd, libvirt-client-qemu I’m able to connect to the LXC daemon in my system. However, I’m not sure how to follow a similar process as perhaps Proxmox, to build a, say, fully blown ubuntu LXC from a template. How should I do this?

Thanks!

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bizdelnick@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Yes, you can.

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- iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Thanks…That’s my fault. I guess I wanted to mention I was looking for a GUI-like way of doing it. Same way virt-manager does. It handles libvirt in the background, but I guess a nice more intuitive manner of following a process to create a VM. I wanted to see if I can do something similar for a container.
  
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  - bizdelnick@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    virt-manager is able to work wit lxc. Add a new connection of type Libvirt-LXC.
    
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0x0@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
virt-manager supports, at least, kvm and lxc/incus, so you should be fine.

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- iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yeah…So far I managed to connect virt-manager to the LXC daemon after a few attempts, but I’m a bit stuck now. In order to create a new LXC container it asks for an URI and I don’t know which one should I put.
  
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denshirenji@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’m not sure about virt-manager, but there is Incus. I have a server coming soon that I am going to test it out on. github.com/lxc/incus.

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- iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Thanks! I was hoping it would have its own GUI, not having to run from a webUI…Kinda makes integration with a virtual desktop a bit easier. I’d like to have the equivalent of a virtualbox VM, with desktop etc, but running on a container.
  
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  - denshirenji@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Forgot about that. Think there are a few. Here is an example. github.com/osamuaoki/incus-ui-canonical
    
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