[lxc-users] LXC for real-time robotics

[Saint Michael]

Thanks for the information. I will also move to 20.04

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 3:12 PM Mark Paterson <markpaters at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't have an LXC reason at present to choose one or the other. For
> robotics, the most common messaging and application framework is called
> ROS, and it marches forward in step with Ubuntu LTS release. Choosing 20.04
> allows us to choose the latest ROS version, which in this case has
> advantages in terms of longevity of support and removal of Python 2
> dependencies.
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 1:52 PM Saint Michael <venefax at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there any advantage on running 20.04 vs 18.04 with kernel 5.X?
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 2:39 PM Mark Paterson <markpaters at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Based on some success using LXC as a development environment on my
>>> desktop, we're looking at using LXC containers to deploy software to our
>>> robotics platform. The deployment platform will be Ubuntu 18.04 or 20.04,
>>> running on a custom kernel with the RT_PREEMPT patch applied, and probably
>>> using btrfs as a backend due to the superior snapshot support. The
>>> applications running in the container will need to meet (soft) real-time
>>> requirements.
>>>
>>> I was wondering whether anyone has tried running real-time applications
>>> in an LXC container, or if there is anything in LXC/LXD itself that would
>>> suggest this is a bad fit.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Mark Paterson
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