Re: CentOS 7

On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 07:59:13PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> Laurent,

> At first thanks for infos, :-)

Hello Roman,

> I have look on it for 60min, in this time i have a running
> vserver on CentOs7 with LXD, troubles to config to run on a own
> interface, but this could be fixed spending more time, the main
> trouble a have with the differt uid's, and thats comming from
> Ubuntu => so Lts 3 years not part of Centos if this is a good
> choice, but which options are left.

> Nice page good infos, doku, well done, but vserver is now
> running on my servers since Rh9, why did't they get it run, 
> no Enterpise Disto no Debian no ... works anymore what are 
> the patch for???

Not sure what you are asking here (or complaining about?)
Who is 'they' and 'what should they have gotten running'?

> And by the way is it not awful LXD posts on this list?, 

Why would it be 'awful' when 'mainline' features get mentioned?

> from so much users, and I'm frustrated to get not direkt answer
> like yes working on it, no never, fuck off, anything i could
> work with, planning future with or without.

I already replied that nobody bothered to mess with systemd
for several reasons and that I consider it doable but not
worth the time unless there is clear interest.

> Did't really anyone use those Distros without systemd, for 
> what if ??

No idea what that means ...

Best,
Herbert

> BRG Roman









> Am 2019-01-20 15:33, schrieb Laurent Spagnol:
>> Hi,

>> Le 20/01/2019 à 09:50, Alber Lvs a écrit :
>>> On 17-01-19 09:05, Alber Lvs wrote:

>>>> LXD is being packaged for Debian, while the older LXC is packaged for
>>>> Debian.
>>>> I must say I much prefer LXD over LXC.
>>>> With Ubuntu as LXD (or LXC) host you will likely have a much easier 
>>>> time
>>>> installing and maintaining time than having LXC or maybe in the 
>>>> future
>>>> LXD on Debian.

>>> Quite some negative voices about LXC on this mailing list.
>>> When I tried LXC years ago it was a sad state of affairs indeed. But
>>> Debian Linux was going to drop kernel support for Linux Vserver, and
>>> they hinted in the Debian wiki that LXC would be the future, so I 
>>> hopes
>>> for LXC progress.
>>> Every now and then I looked at LXC and it was only making slow 
>>> progress,
>>> and the command line tools were very cumbersome to use.

>>> However, LXD is very different. Easy to set up in Ubuntu.
>>> It has nice command line name completion.
>>> For example, type in : sudo lxc exec t.. <tab> and it will complete to
>>> sudo lxc exec test-server (Where test-server is the name of your 
>>> container).
>>> By default LXD creates containers which have a different root UIG/GID 
>>> in
>>> the containers for security reasons. That can cause some confusion 
>>> when
>>> you are copying files as root from the host to a container directory,
>>> but once you understand how to fix those permissions it is fine.

>>> With LXD you can even run Docker inside a container!

>> With LXC too, and you can run LXC containers inside LXC container =>
>> "nested" containers.

>> There is no diffence beetween LXC and LXD in terms of functionalities.
>> It's just the same thing !!

>> LXC is based on a flat configuration file, it's very simple to use,
>> especially on a single host.

>> LXD is "cluster" oriented, based on a deamon, and containers's
>> configuruations are in a database (SQLite if i rememmber).

>> LXD is the default on Ubuntu Server. It's a good choice fot beginers.

>> But I prefers "old school flat files", so i remove LXD and use "old
>> style" LXC. It is more simple with complex configurations !

>> I was a fan of Linux-Vserver, i have wroted some scripts to play with
>> VLANs, conditional routing and netfilter (this was a long time ago,
>> before "veth" ...) but finally i choose LXC when it was good enough
>> for "production". I use it for years (mostly over ZFS), it works like
>> a charms.

>> LS



>>> https://blog.simos.info/how-to-run-docker-in-a-lxd-container/


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