[lxc-users] LXD + OS X

[Kevin LaTona]

On Jul 25, 2015, at 7:17 AM, Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 06:30:07PM -0700, Kevin LaTona wrote:
>> 
>>> This is the first release of LXD where the client may be built on operating systems 
>>> other than Linux. At the moment, MacOS X has been confirmed to work and Windows is known not to work, 
>>> other Unix may work too but haven't been tested.
>> 
>> 
>> I noticed this on the Linux Containers.org website today and it piqued my interest but not much else info to figure out what it really means yet.
>> 
>> Does anyone know of any links to any other information that talks about it yet?
>> 
>> The reference to a "client" is not making much sense to me, given I thought LXD runs as a daemon that allows a CLI or Rest interaction to a Host running LXC's
> 
> It means the CLI tool can be built and run on OSX. The daemon is Linux-specific.



Does this mean a SSH connection has now been incorporated into the LXD CLI tool running on a OS X machine and a Linux box?

-Kevin