[lxc-users] Converting from libvirt lxc

Saint Michael venefax at gmail.com
Wed Dec 2 17:22:40 UTC 2015


The ideal architecture right now is, Ubuntu 14.04 on the server and Centos
7 or Fedora 20 LXC containers. I am even getting rid of Vmware Vsphere
altogether, since I feel everything twice as fast.

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Peter Steele <pwsteele at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/02/2015 08:54 AM, Peter Steele wrote:
>
> On 12/02/2015 08:09 AM, Saint Michael wrote:
>
> I could not find on Google any mention of Red Hat killing LXC on  Libvirt.
> Care to elaborate?
>
> Here's the first reference I came across a few months ago:
> https://access.redhat.com/articles/1365153. There's no date indicated
> here so I really don't know what this means, but I just did another search
> to see if I could find some more information. I came across this thread:
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2015-August/msg00026.html
>
> This was a fairly recent thread and I'd not found this before. If you read
> through the follow-ups apparently libvirt-lxc is *not* being deprecated:
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2015-August/msg00030.html
>
> So, it appears I was mistaken. I'm not sure where that leaves me though.
> One issue we've had with libvirt-lxc is that although it's a great product
> there seems to be very little activity with the project. My own posts to
> the libvirt-lxc mailing list often go unanswered, whereas this mailing list
> (by comparison) is great. Posts to more generic forums are more often than
> not to find information related to LXC and not libvirt-lxc. The community
> for libvirt-lxc just doesn't seem that large.
>
> Looks like I have some thinking to do...
>
> Actually, I guess what this means is just that Redhat is deprecating it,
> but the libvirt-lxc project as a whole is still moving forward for whatever
> distros want to include it, so we probably could still use it as a
> non-Redhat supported package. But, I think we'll continue with our move to
> LXC since it does seem to have a lot of momentum going for it. I think it's
> the right direction to move for the long term.
>
>
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