[lxc-users] Advice for running LXC on a Debian host

[Rory Campbell-Lange]

On 14/03/15, Xavier Gendre (gendre.reivax at gmail.com) wrote:
> I am not as categorical as Fajar and using LXC with Debian is widely
> feasable. I admit that the LXC version that comes with Debian Stable is not
> enough up to date. But I have installed Debian Jessie and I use the Debian's
> package that give LXC with version 1.0.6.
> 
> Of course, if you need all the last functionalities easily available, you
> will have to follow the advices of Fajar and dealing with Ubuntu is
> certainly easier. If you don't need that, Debian Jessie and LXC work (quite)
> like a charm and it suits all my needs.

On 14/03/15, Mark Clarkson (mark.clarkson at smorg.co.uk) wrote:
> I have had LXC working perfectly on Debian Wheezy for months.
> 
> I upgraded to lxc 1.0.6, compiling from jessie sources, which also seems to
> work well on wheezy, but I have not used it for long enough to be sure.
> 
> However, I am switching to ubuntu for the VM host because:
> 
> * I was having trouble getting nested containers to work.
> * I was having trouble getting unprivileged containers to work.
> * I could not compile systemd-shim, from jessie, without upgrading major
> parts of debian.
> 
> So, debian jessie might work, but for supportability and ease of
> installation I feel I am forced to switch to ubuntu, which I'm not overly
> happy about, but on ubuntu, it's just too easy to get everything working.

Thanks very much for the advice, Mark, Fajar and Xavier.

I'm going to try on Debian testing (Jessie) and see if that works
acceptably.

If not we will have to try another containerisation/vm solution as we
wish to stick with Debian.

Thanks again
Rory


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Rory Campbell-Lange
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