Using containters with libvirt

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Hi!
A few years back I was running LXC and was happy. Then doing some dist-upgrade the new LXC called LXD appeared and I thought I was supposed to upgrade/migrate before the original LXC became just legacy/obsolete. Only I ended up running both LXC and LXD for a long time.
Now this post here helped me understand it all, thanks @stgraber

A little confused here about the relation between Incus, LXC & etc

The whole thing with LXD’s command line tool being named lxc was an attempt by Canonical management to get some free press for LXD and try to get people to transition from traditional LXC to LXD. That went as far as attempting to rename the existing lxc package to lxc2 with LXD then being lxc3. That never really took off and things have generally reverted back to the old state now with the lxc package being the actual LXC project and LXD being its own thing distributed as a snap. But LXD keeps…

My question now:
I’m running a libvirt based server now with multiple qemu/KVM VM’s. But I was thinking it would be neat to add some slim containers, and I would love to just manage those through the LibVirt tools.

→ Am I right to think I then should just go for LXC (the lxc package / lxc-* tools), and not Incus in this setting?

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→ Am I right to think I then should just go for LXC (the lxc package / lxc-* tools), and not Incus in this setting?

No response == everyone agrees?

[simos (Simos Xenitellis)]

Hi!

My understanding is that libvirt LXC is different from LXC (the project hosted here). That is, it’s a separate implementation of Linux containers.

Depending on your application, Incus gives you all the tools to easily manage containers, application containers and virtual machines. I would use something simpler if I was concerned about system resources.