Hi, some context of the situation: On host A the LXD daemon has crashed permanently (due to snap’s automatic updates). The containers are working, but to fix the problem I need to migrate them to other machine (host B). Storage is on ZFS pool. My steps to migrate were: on host B: lxc init contX -…

Rather than initializing an empty container you should transfer the datasets and then run “lxd recover” so the correct db entries are restored. https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/docs/master/backup/#disaster-recovery

Disable id remap on first start of recovered container

LXD

tomp (Thomas Parrott) June 30, 2023, 12:49pm 6

If you install the hwe kernel it works on ubuntu 18.04 as its only the updated ZFS kernel modules LXD needs, not the userspace tooling: