How to run a Linux Desktop virtual machine on Incus

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This is a tutorial for end-users on running the desktop Incus images.

In a nutshell, you run them as follows. That is, you add --console=vga to get the Remote Viewer running. Also, you need to increase a bit the VM memory from the default 1GB. The Ubuntu image requires 1.2GB RAM

incus launch --vm images:ubuntu/plucky/desktop mydesktop -c limits.memory=3GiB --console=vga

Notes

  1. I could not get the ArchLinux VM image to boot. It gets stuck.
  2. There are also container images with desktop in their name. How are these supposed to run?
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That was a bug in the Jenkins configuration. I’ve fixed it now so those images will disappear over the next 10 days.