[lxc-users] HOWTO: How to run graphics-accelerated GUI apps in LXD containers on your Ubuntu desktop

Simos Xenitellis simos.lists at googlemail.com
Sat May 20 22:12:39 UTC 2017


On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 7:20 PM, Massimiliano Malisan
<max.malisan.uk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Simos,
>
> thanks for your great tutorial!
> I followed it and almost all runs fine, except that I had to add user
> permissions to the gpu device:
>
> lxc config device set <container> <gpu> uid 1000
> lxc config device set <container> <gpu> gid 1000
>
> otherwise, even though all X windows were starting correctly, GPU
> acceleration was skipped...
> Maybe it's because I have an ATI card..
>
> I am running an Ubuntu 16.04 inside an Ubuntu 16.10.
>

Thanks for the feedback.
I added these commands to the turorial!

Simos

> Regards,
>     Max
>
> On 4 May 2017 at 18:56, Simos Xenitellis <simos.lists at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Lago Gonzalez, Diego
>> <diego.lago-gonzalez at hp.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Really great job! Thank you!
>> >
>> > Next step could be to run a full desktop instance inside LXD using :1
>> > display ;)
>> >
>>
>> Thanks everyone for the support!
>>
>> There are many things to try, and getting a full desktop in a LXD
>> container is the great goal.
>>
>> As for the immediate next steps, I think the following are critical
>> stepping stones:
>> 1. make very easy the process of setting up the container. Perhaps
>> some sort of script or scripting framework.
>> 2. actually get people to try these things. There should be bugs and
>> issues waiting to be discovered and reported.
>>
>> Simos
>>
>> > —
>> > Diego Lago
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: lxc-users [mailto:lxc-users-bounces at lists.linuxcontainers.org] On
>> > Behalf Of Simos Xenitellis
>> > Sent: jueves, 04 de mayo de 2017 01:05
>> > To: LXC users mailing-list <lxc-users at lists.linuxcontainers.org>
>> > Subject: [lxc-users] HOWTO: How to run graphics-accelerated GUI apps in
>> > LXD containers on your Ubuntu desktop
>> >
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I completed the tutorial on how to run graphics-accelerated GUI apps in
>> > (local) LXD containers,
>> > https://blog.simos.info/how-to-run-graphics-accelerated-gui-apps-in-lxd-containers-on-your-ubuntu-desktop/
>> >
>> > Compared to the previous post, this one has sound and also shows how to
>> > create a shortcut so that the GUI app can run in a single click, from the
>> > Launcher.
>> >
>> > Simos
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