Viewing existing containers via virt-manager remotely

[bstin]

Hi All.

Can someone help enlighten me on how I can integrate virt-manager and LXC via remote sessions.

Here is the scenario:

PC = Debian Client running virt-manager
SERVER = Ubuntu Server running LXD/LXC

My confusion comes from, currently I can log into server start/create a new container no problem, but I can’t then see that container running on the client PC via virt-manager.

Likewise, I can create a new container remotely from PC, but then using command-line apps on server, I can’t see the container running?

Perhaps these two apps aren’t really that well integrated? Basically I’m looking for a way of how I can remotely ‘manage’ a server running multiple containers and be able stop/start and attach to those containers. I thought logically that virt-manager would do that, but perhaps there is some other way that I’m not aware of?

[simos (Simos Xenitellis)]

Hi!

Have a look at this recent discussion on LXC with virt-manager,

LXC application container

Hi! You mainly use virt-manager to create virtual machines (VMs). You can also use it to create LXC containers, and when you use it in that way, you are asked in what directory to put the root filesystem of the container. If you select / as the directory, then the LXC container will have the same root filesystem with your Linux installation. It is not a typical thing to do, because with containers you want to separate their filesystems from your host’s filesystem. That is, just select a subdire…

In a nutshell, the LXC in virt-manager is a separate re-implementation of Linux Containers and it’s different from what we call LXC here.

[bstin]

Thank you.