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Failed container creation: LXD doesn't have a uid/gid allocation

I'm trying to lauch an lxd container, but I get this: lxc launch ubuntu:16.04 A criar o contentor Error: Failed container creation: LXD doesn't have a uid/gid allocation. In this mode, only ...
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LXD ZFS snapshot creation slows down as number of snapshots increases

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - LXD Ubuntu launch using loopback ZFS (about 400MB) # lxc launch ubuntu:16.04 test -s ianzfspool (I have one other idle multi-GB container using the same ianzfspool.) I have lots ...
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add a LXD Host on MAAS

this is my lab: 1 SVR IBM system x3650 M4 with Ubuntu 18.04 and MAAS 2 SVR IBM system x3650 M4 with Ubuntu 18.04 as hypervisor Installing KVM and virt on NODEs I can manage the VM via MAAS, if I ...
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LXD Connect to a container on public ip

So I've setup a Ubuntu server 18.04.01 64bit can connect to it and all that with SSH. Installed LXD/LXC I also created a bridge br0 in netplan with DHCP at first an to connect to the containers with ...
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Conjure-up Kubernetes installation failed because of "/proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn" does not exist,

When I had been installing Kubernetes via conjure-up in my workstation, ended up with somaxconn does not exist and some mongo error. VM Configuration 2 vCPU,8 GB vRAM and 100 GB vDisk and it is fresh ...
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LXD: Running an image with a foreign architecture

I want to use LXD to bootstrap a root filesystem for deployment on an embedded ARM system from my AMD64 host running ubuntu 16.04. Previously, I've done this with a script and the chroot command, but ...
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ubuntu-desktop in lxc with ubuntu server as the host

I've recently installed Ubuntu 18.04 server and would like to use it as a desktop without interfering too much with the server part. This should be possible using linux containers (lxd). The problem ...
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18.04 zfs+lxd causes container host to reboot under heavy load?

Spent a few days struggling with this and I guess 18.04 just aint ready for production. 18.04 server w/ lxd over zfs on raw block devices just reboots itself randomly. No panic or output. I have ...
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Landscape server quickstart and lxd problem

A bit leading up to my problem. I had a landscape server for personal use running on one server with nfs for my home directory. Was getting parts to upgrade that server and thought I would move the ...
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LXD - How to execute a script inside a container from host

I wrote a github pull script inside the running container so that the container can get the updated codes. But how can I call this script from the host machine? I have tried with something like this ...
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LXC & OverlayFS

Goal - To configure/install a webapp on Host & make sure its accessible through an lxc container. Why - To isolate the host yet provide access to the web app and ssh access to our clients. ...
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LXDe in Lubuntu 18.04

Translation by Google: I would like to know in Lubuntu 18.04 the LXDe shell will be installed by default or will it have to be installed before? And tell me how to install it should be installed in ...
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How do I copy a file/directory from host into a LXD container?

I have a file/directory on the host that I want to copy into the LXD container. What is the command to copy the host -> container?
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Quota inside LXD container

I want to enable quota inside LXD container so as to limit each user to 10GB storage. However I got the following error: root@test:~# quotacheck -avug quotacheck: Cannot find filesystem to check or ...
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How to enable hostname resolution (dns) for lxd containers from the lxd host?

How to enable lxd hostname resolution from the lxd host? After creating the below container: >>> lxc launch ubuntu: container Creating container Starting container >>> lxc list +--...
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lxd init fails on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus

When I use lxd, it fails on lxd init . $ snap install lxd lxd 3.0.0 from 'canonical' installed $ lxd init Error: Failed to connect to local LXD: Get http://unix.socket/1.0: dial unix /var/snap/lxd/...
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LXD Cannot Bridge network device

I'm trying, (and failing) to use LXD and MaaS on my home machine to create a Pod. I commisioned and deploy a machine via MaaS on my local network. When I ssh into it I install LXD and bridge-utils. ...
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External DHCP with LXD 2.3+

I am trying out LXD. It seems the default way to set up networking is to have the host provide DHCP and NAT for all the guests, but I'd like to omit NAT and allow the guests to use the same DHCP ...
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Publicly Available Containers via Ubuntu 18.04 -- help question

First off, let me start by saying I am no expert in server talk. I've been teaching myself as I go along, and I really only know entry level basics to server management. I am trying to consolidate ...
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SNAP out of control [closed]

I'm running many LXD containers inside a specific developer area , this morning I found some container stuck and I turned out that SNAP has updated the LXD at the version 3 automatically. As far as I'...
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Unable to locate package qt5-default in LXD container

I am trying to install Qt in a LXD container but the qt5-default seems to be missing. The LXD container is Ubuntu 18.04 based and I already installed the rest of the packages. Any ideeas? Thank you. ...
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Juju add-machine does not start LXD container

Juju agent version 2.3.4 MAAS version: 2.3.1 (6470-g036d646-0ubuntu1~16.04.1 I seem to be experiencing the symptoms akin to the ones here. With MAAS nodes in 'Ready' state, adding a machine #juju ...
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sudo snap install conjure-up --classic fails with configuring hook

I am trying to run kubernetes on lxd following the instructions taken from https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/ubuntu/local/. However, I get following error message: $ sudo snap ...
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LXD Installation Not Working with Snapcraft

I installed LXD with all the defaults, but when I get an error: $ snapcraft cleanbuild Something seems to be wrong with your installation of LXD. Refer to the documentation at https://linuxcontainers....
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LXD: Getting DHCP IP but no ping outside

So I setup a clean VM in VirtualBox. I setup bridge devices as described by several tutorials. I create a VM, I get a DHCP address. But after that I got no ping from the container to any IP on the ...
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Setup containers

I have ubuntu 17.10 and i'm trying to setup containers that people can ssh into from outside my network. I tried installing LXD containers and had a friend try to ssh into it but it says connection ...
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Problem installing Ubuntu SDK IDE on MATE 16.04

I'm trying to install Ubuntu SDK and SDK IDE on Ubuntu MATE 16.04, but every time I run it, I get this error: Stopping containers: All containers stopped. Creating default network bridge ..... FAILED ...
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How do I enable image auto-updating in LXD?

When I installed LXD, I disabled image auto-updating since I knew I was going to be traveling and using slow internet connections for a week or so. Now that I'm back home with a fast connection, I'd ...
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Creating a network with lxd on xenial-backports

I want to start using lxc container on an Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial machine. I am using lxd 2.21 from the xenial-backports repository. It works fine up to the point where I want to give my containers ...
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Netplan-configured LXD host doesn't restore network config on reboot

I have 17.10 server with LXD installed via snap (2 containers). I've configured host to have static IP and let containers be accessible from LAN. My 01-netcfg.yaml in /etc/netplan: network: ...
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How to migrate vm´s from oracle virtualbox hypervisor to LXD or Docker Containers

Thinking about to run virtual maschines on LXD as LXD guests instead on virtualbox installed on this ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS server: How to migrate existing vm's? Simply export as OVA and and import them? ...
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Configuration of a bridge with a static IP with the netplan to be used with linux container

Summary: how to configure the netplan on a host machine to create a bridge (with a static IP address) that would be used on guest virtual machine (shall be accessible from a local lan). I am using ...
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LXD 2.0 - lxd.migration to snap hang waiting for lxd process to start - /var/lib/lxd directory gone

As the title said migration to snap went wrong and I lost all the /var/lib/lxd directory except for the storage_pool and images which were symbolic links. Obviously I lost all configurations but I ...
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Ubuntu 14.04: LXD PPA no longer available

It appears the LXD PPA for Ubuntu 14.04 was removed at the end of 2017. Unfortunately there's no migration path for a 14.04 as I'm not seeing how to get snaps installed for 14.04. I'm not sure how to ...
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LXD PPA remove requires lxd.migrate to snap, but what about my network bridge and ZFS pool?

Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS During the latest batch of updates I was informed that the LXD PPA packages were being removed in favor of just installing as a snap. │ LXD PPAs to go away by end of year ...
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reconfigure LXD subnet for canonical-kubernetes on Ubuntu 16.04 with LXD

We have set up canonical-kubernetes and got a private docker registry running with self signed certificates and an ingress. Now we would like to make this cluster available on our corporate network. ...
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How can I create a secondary lxd bridge?

I want try to create a network infrastructure with containers, but how can I configure another lxd (eg.: lxcbr1) bridge for my lxc container? on the host I type: sudo brctl addbr lxcbr1 but when I ...
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lxc error: saving config file for the container failed

I recently upgraded my lxd to 2.20-0ubuntu4~16.04.1~ppa, but now i cant start my imported containers. I can successfully import a containers, with lxd import NAME and i can do lxc config show NAME ...
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Maas and Juju handshake!

Here is my setup; I have a PowerEdge 2900 running Ubuntu 16.04 server with lxd and Juju installed on it, (this machine hosts 5 containers with very important server apps for our infrastructure). ...
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LXD Containers and Host on DHCP

I'm working on containers at the moment and having trouble with configuring them to use the network's DHCP, so that they can be accessed via hostname (container name) directly. This'll mean apps on ...
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`juju bootstrap` fails getting address

I am trying to do juju bootstrap lxd lxd-local but it fails with the following error: Select a cloud [localhost]: Enter a name for the Controller [localhost-localhost]: Resolved LXD host address ...
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How to recover LXD containers inside a zfs pool?

I have this setup: sda : ubuntu server 16.04 sdb and sdc : a zfs pool I have several LXD containers, during the lxd init, I selected zfs and supplied a zfs dataset for lxd to use. now I have this ...
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lxd container with openvpn server does not apply iptables nat rule

I'm trying to setup openvpn on one of my lxd containers to allow access to the container network. The server seem to work and I can access (ping) containers which have a static route pointing to the ...
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Adding lxd containers on Windows 10 hyper V host networking issue

While creating LXD containers on Ubuntu 16.04 sitting on Windows 10 Hyper V having external virtual switch network configuration, containers do not get connected with the external network. All the ...
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Conjure Up : Unable to deploy OpenStack Cloud on LXD Configuration Ubuntu 16.04LTS (LXD not found)

After running conjure-up, and choosing OpenStack with LXD, when I try to deploy to localhost I get this error Could not locate any network or storage devices to continue. Please make sure you have at ...
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How to use gnome-keyring in lxc ubuntu container?

I have tried to start the installed gnome-keyring in a lxc Ubuntu 16.04 container by executing sudo gnome-keyring-daemon --start. However, I got the following errors. ** (gnome-keyring-daemon:21983): ...
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In LXD container, can I mount a disk image such that it is private to the container?

Inside of an LXD container, I have created a disk image file and finally figured out how to mount it. However, a side effect of mounting the image makes it visible and readable to the host operating ...
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LXC endless restating loop

(Please see below update 1, 2 and 3) Today I updated the host system then after a reboot the LXD daemon do not start. It gives the error failed to create listening socket for 10.104.52.1: Address ...
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How to downgrade feature branch installed LXD to LTS branch?

In order to get a more recent feature I upgraded lxd to the feature branch using: sudo apt install lxd lxd-client I have however experienced instability since and would like to switch back to the ...
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Disable IPv6 from boot inside LXD/LXC container

I'm using an ubuntu:xenial spawned container in LXD/LXC and can't work out why it keeps booting with an IPv6 link local address (fe80::). If it's at all relevant, I'm also using Xenial as the ...
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