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Creating the lxc virtual machine manager

Give the virtual machine manager a name (optional) and make sure it's mentioned in the hosts file as well:

echo "vm-mgr" > /etc/hostname
nano /etc/hosts

Install lxc (and bridge-utils for bridged networking):

apt-get install lxc bridge-utils

(will install bridge-utils libcap2-bin lxc), current version is lxc(0.7.2-1) </code>

nano /etc/default lxc

Change: #RUN=yes to RUN=yes

Put the names of the containers you wish to start upon boot in the 'CONTAINERS' variable (we haven't created any, but you might experiment with 'vm-template')

mkdir /cgroup
echo "cgroup /cgroup cgroup defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab 

Check if everything's ok with:

lxc-checkconfig 

Ignore 'Cgroup memory controller: missing' (I did)

If all went well, mount /cgroup:

mount /cgroup

That was easy, wasn't it?

You will probably need 'screen' later on to be able to lxc-start without the '-d' option. Make sure it is installed:

vm-mgr:/mnt/vm# apt-get install screen

Creating the network bridge

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lxc_virtual_machine_manager.txt ยท Last modified: 2023-02-28 16:44 by 127.0.0.1