Split download part when running "lxc launch ubuntu-daily:focal test"

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Hi,

is there a way to do the command

lxc launch ubuntu-daily:focal test

in 2 commands?

  1. download the ubuntu-daily:focal image
  2. then launch (and use the downloaded image)
2

You can use lxc init to create the instance (downloading the image), but not start it?

It would help to understand why you are trying to achieve this?

3

We have some tests for this and in some public cloud regions, the download times out.
But using lxc init sounds good. Thanks!

4

You could also do:

  • lxc image copy ubuntu-daily:focal local: --auto-update
  • lxc launch ubuntu-daily:focal test

The first will just transfer the image and mark it for auto-update (as normally happens during launch), then launch will just use that image.

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