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Is there a way to create and launch a LXD container using a local image rather than requiring an internet connection? All the documentation and how-tos I've been able to find are based on having an internet connection and pulling an image from some remote store.

I would like to be able to put a compatible image on my local filesystem and then build containers from that without having to have any external internet connectivity at all.

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  • link I will admit, I hadn't looked at this in a while, it seems that has changed and this may well be exactly the very simple answer I was looking for.
    – bladernr
    Jan 24, 2017 at 19:07
  • It is covered in detail here - linuxcontainers.org/lxd/getting-started-cli , specifically lxc image import \<file\> --alias my-alias under the "Manually importing an image" section.
    – Panther
    Jan 24, 2017 at 19:17
  • @bodhi.zazen thanks, I think that may be what I was looking for. trying it out now.
    – bladernr
    Jan 24, 2017 at 19:23

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Thanks for pointing me in the right direction @bodhi.zazen.

Indeed, it is covered at getting-started-cli but the other clue was further in at github

So the answer is in the following steps:

wget http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/xenial/current/xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64-root.tar.xz
wget http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/xenial/current/xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64-lxd.tar.xz
lxc image import xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64-lxd.tar.xz rootfs xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64-root.tar.xz --alias SomeAlias
lxc launch SomeAlias MyMachine

That gets me to the point where I can create a local image store and either import the images from a local server or copy them to the node and import them directly from the node's filesystem.

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