Questions tagged [lxd]
The LXD tag is for questions relating to the LXD daemon based on liblxc, providing REST API, command line tool and OpenStack integration plugin for LXC.
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MAAS - KVM host (LXD) show no availiable resources
I have deployed a Maas installation on one PC (A) and trying to connect the LXD of another PC(B) to it. I have successfully connected (B) as a KVM host to Maas, however it shows zero CPUs and Memory, ...
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LXD export backup failed. Snapshot error
I tried to make lxc backup and get's error that failes on some snapshot for 2 years ago.
run test command
lxc export backup /tank/local/lxd/backups-temp/backup_test.tar.gz -v
Error message:
Error: ...
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LXC Profile custom changes are being ignored during container instantiation
I need all my containers to automatically upgrade packages, install build-essential and load an ssh key I can use to ssh inside of my container immediately after launching. However even after custom ...
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how to use existing default.img
I have an unused 222G file /mnt/disc/default.img. It was created a year ago when I was in process of expanding disc space for our container. But I got distracted and never completed the task. Now I ...
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How do I pass a cloud-init config when creating an LXD container?
I've been reading through the LXD documentation and blogs and stackexchange answers that say LXD is supposed to have some kind of init syntax that allows you to pass cloud-config data to your ...
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How can Ubuntu Core be installed to lxd?
As described by http://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-core-in-lxd-containers, Ubuntu Core can be installed via http://snapcraft.io/lxd by executing lxc launch images:ubuntu-core/16 ubuntu-core. The tutorial ...
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Is there a way to set /run/snapd/ns/lxd.mnt with option nodev?
My organization has flagged our new servers with security issues, one stated as such:
/run/snapd/ns/lxd.mnt partition does not have 'nodev' option set
Is it possible to set that option through a ...
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login and pwd requested to use terminal inside a VM created by LXD
I'm pretty new to Linux Containers.
I followed these indications: https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/getting-started-cli/#ubuntu to install and use LXD in Ubuntu 20.04
(base) raphy@pc:~$ snap install lxd
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LXD Bridge Prevents Network Access
Explanation before the question
I am trying to configure LXD on a raspberry pi using Ubuntu Core 20.04. It's local IP is initialized as 192.168.2.64. Before I run lxd init it was connecting to network ...
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unable to start a LXC container - lxc-start: lxccontainer.c: wait_on_daemonized_start: 804 Received container state "STOPPING" instead of "RUNNING"
Im very much new to LXC and LXD concepts. I was experimenting with LXC's by creating a containers and destroying them.
after some experiments, I tried to create a container to implement by task, was ...
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LXC dnsmasq port 53 in use but I would like to map to container
I am trying to have an authoritative only Bind server inside a LXC container but when I went to forward the port 53 to it, I received an error saying the port is already in use. (listen=tcp:0.0.0.0:53 ...
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Is it possible to configure LXD in local juju setup to use ZFS on file backed?
I want to setup juju openstack cloud in LXD containers on my local KVM machines (manually created).
By default Juju creates LXD provider as a directory.
But from LXD documentation I see that it's ...
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Installing Ubuntu Kubernates 1.20 on localhost -> Documentation lead to error -> Waiting for 3 kube-system pods to start
I was created fresh Ubuntu 20.03 on VirtualBox than started installation using documentation. Machine have Quadro RTX Card (maybe it impacts?).
Documentation is messy because there is many ways to do -...
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installing internet facing snaps as root vs regular user (with sudo priviledges)
I plan to run a WeKan instance inside an LXD container on a vps which shall be accessible via internet.
Is there any difference from a security point of view whether I do ...
snap install wekan (as ...
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Convert Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS iso to lxc container or download somewhere
Where can I find LXC version of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS? I can find only .iso version at: https://ubuntu.com/download/server
Or how can I convert .iso image it to LXC?
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lxd host shows high memory usage not equal to the sum of lxc guest usage
I just want to understand with my lxd host shows high memory usage (more than 80%) while the sum of all guest container memory is way less than that?
host:~$ free -h
total used ...
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How to change confinement without reinstalling?
I recently installed snap lxd in one of my servers. Initially it was working fine. Now I needed to install gitlab-ce on my lxd container which requires sysctl access. But snap documentation saying I ...
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LXD not installed after upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04
I have been trying to get snap working on my Ubuntu machine for a while, but got nowhere. So I decided to upgrade to the latest LTS version of 20.04.
error: system does not fully support snapd: ...
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The `snapd` package fails to upgrade inside of Ubuntu 20.04 LXD container
I'm launching Ubuntu 20.04 via LXD but, when I enter the container to use it, it fails to run:
apt update
apt full-upgrade
It stops on Setting up snapd (2.47.1+20.04) ... Error:
Setting up snapd (2....
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LXD - Assign public IP to a container
I have several static public IP addresses on my host machine. I want to assign that IP to a certain container, but I cannot really find any updated info about that. I tried to create a new network, ...
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LXC/LXD as Debian package
Installing LXD from APT installs it as a Snap package and while LXC programs are installed from a Debian package, running them tells me I need to install the LXD snap. Is there anyway to install LXC ...
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What does stateful mean
I can snapshot a LXC on a ZFS Pool with or without the Option "Stateful".
I can not find any Info about it. What does it mean?
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veth.ko missing
On a Raspberry Pi 4, running Ubuntu Focal 64bit. LXD keeps getting broken, and it seems like it's because the kernel module veth.ko is missing.
In an attempt to restore it I did:
sudo apt install ...
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Auditd on Ubuntu 18.04 Container
i want to ask something about auditd in container, here we go
recently i try install auditd in my server (outside container) and it worked i follow this steps (https://documentation.wazuh.com/3.13/...
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incron job does not write to temp directory
I have a very weird problem that I might not have cooked down correctly, but I tried a minimal example:
In a 20.04 lxd container on 20.04, I am trying to run a job triggered by incron. For my minimal ...
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Lost LXD/LXC with most recent 20.04 upgrade
Ubuntu 20.04 update/upgrade broke lxd/lxc containers
History:
Ubuntu 16.04 Server running LXD upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04 and subsequently Ubuntu 20.04.
All LXC containers worked fine until yesterdays “...
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LXD Snap stuck on "undoing"
I use LXD for my cluster and I can't access it for a couple of days, because the LXD versions are incompatible across the cluster. In one of the node it's upgraded to 4.3; but on the other one, it's ...
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Performance overhead of LXD running as a SNAP
LXC/LXD used to be implemented as native packages until 18.04. Since 18.04 LXC containers are run as snaps. I wonder if this imposes a runtime overhead. This would negate the idea of having light-...
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Can't remove core18 snap
I am cleaning up my fresh Ubuntu 20.04 install and I can't seem to remove core18 snap.
$ snap list
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
core18 20200427 1754 latest/stable ...
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Setting Static IP and NAT trafic to LXC container
This is my first question in here so please have mercy of structured badly compared to the usual suspects. :-)
I would like to be able to receive real connecting client IP in a LXC container over TCP....
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Cannot delete LXC container with full volume nor the volume itself
I've been toying around with LXC/LXD lately and ended up with a couple of stopped containers:
❯ lxc list
+------------------------------------+---------+------+------+-----------+-----------+
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Trying to extract files from ZFS image created by LXC
Alright, so on the beginning I’ll say that I’m not a master at Linux and that it is my first post here. If you’ll need me to do anything, I’ll do my best, but I can’t promise I’ll be successful. Also ...
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LXD: Imported container doesn't start - Problem with ACLs
I am just trying to launch a container, which was created on an other machine.
I've done this the following way:
$ lxc snapshot container_name snapshot_name
$ lxc publish container_name/...
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Deleting zfs.img file in Ubuntu 16.04
Under Ubuntu 16.04, is it safe to delete the file /var/lib/lxd/zfs.img that is taking up 10 Gb of space knowing that I am using lxd containers but only with the DIR storage backend and never used ZFS ...
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Setup LXD storage thin pool on an existing LVM volume group of the host
The lxd init wizzard does not allow to (re)use the existing LVM volume group of the host for LXD storage pool.
How to configure LXD storage manually, so that it creates thin pool and volumes in the ...
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iptables rules for lxd container via ssh
Good day.
I use ubuntu 18 and want connect to my container via ssh. This is my container
cont | RUNNING | 10.78.195.190 (eth0) | fd42:4be2:f986:212a:216:3eff:fee4:582 (eth0) | PERSISTENT | 0 ...
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Nginx as SSH gateway?
I have a server which serves some other systems via LXD, using Nginx as reverse proxy for accessing them on HTTP.
Now I want to give shell access to one of them to a friend. In fact, I want to be ...
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LXD proxy for DNS
I set up a bind server in a LXD instance and I try to forward all DNS queries from host to this instance. I tried this:
sudo lxc config device add bind dnsdevicetcp proxy listen=tcp:0.0.0.0:53 ...
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How to run (if possible) gpu-accelerated apps in LXC (LXD) container?
In its great post https://blog.simos.info/how-to-easily-run-graphics-accelerated-gui-apps-in-lxd-containers-on-your-ubuntu-desktop/ Simos Xenitellis describes how to run GUI apps inside the container.
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Access to LXD from a snap
I am trying to build a snap which accesses the local LXD service. There is a snap interface for LXD, but trying to use this gives me connection errors.
The (very brief) documentation of the interface ...
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Delete a directory inside a container
# lxc exec mycontainer rm -r /home/myuser/mydir
gives me
Error: unknown shorthand flag: 'r' in -r
# lxc exec mycontainer "bash -c 'rm /home/myuser/mydir -r'"
just silently exits without removing ...
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LXDhost doesn't report packages to landscape in container
Good day fellas,
I have landscape running in a lxd container. Containers are in bridge mode. I added the lxdhost to landscape, which worked fine and it connects normally as far as I can tell. However ...
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Upgrade to 19.10, LXD will no longer run
I recently upgraded to 19.10.
LXD will no longer run, I get this error:
Error: Get http://unix.socket/1.0: dial unix /var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/unix.socket: connect: connection refused
I've checked ...
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LXD: Shared Host Directory Permission Issues
*This is a copy of a similar post on the LXD fourms here:https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/shared-host-directory-permission-issues/ *
Hi there, I'm new to using LXD so please bear with me if this ...
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How to fix "docker: Error response from daemon: cgroups: cannot find cgroup mount destination: unknown." on `docker run`?
I have Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS installed.
Previously I have installed Docker from its repository as docker.io package.
Yesterday I have installed LXC with LXD and I suppose that they have some problem ...
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conjure-up juju and nested containers
We have (almost) deployed Openstack NovaLXD with conjure-up on a single machine. In this setup, conjure-up uses juju and lxd, and creates nested lxc containers. All of them comes up with IP addresses, ...
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Physical Network attach to specific LXD Container
First of all, I am not that experienced in networking. I have three NIC in my system.
My netplan settings:
network:
ethernets:
enp5s0:
dhcp4: true
enp3s0:
dhcp4: false
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Why isn't lxd init working on new install of Ubuntu 18.04?
I have a VPS at SSDNodes. I reinstalled Ubuntu 18.04 on it, ran update, upgrade, autoremove and clean.
I then tried to configure lxd using the lxd init. The cursor moved to the next line and did ...
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LXD : /var/snap/lxd/.../unix.socket: connect: no such file or directory
I have Ubuntu 18.04 running with LXD in the host and about 300 containers.
LXD (as the title suggests), was installed using snap.
In the past year, I have faced twice this error (last time was ...
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Is it possible to run a desktop GUI VM Container on linux with any linux image
Looking for way to create virtual gui desktop container inside container e.g docker or LXD whichever is better
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