thank you Michal, appreciate your input, I'll invest some more time and set up a full test system mirroring our prod and see how it works out. I'm gonna start another thread on images/templates because that's another area where I've found a lack of information and could do with some input. thanks.
Spike On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 2:11 AM Michal Privoznik <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/03/2017 04:02 AM, Spike wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I'm a happy lxc (lxd) user with a need to add a bunch of KVM images to > the > > mix. More importantly I need to have some simple frontend to give users > the > > ability to quickly run some VMs for testing. > > > > Researching the topic brought me to virt-manager and from there libvirt. > > I've had however a hard time to answer a few questions that I hope this > > list can help me with: > > > > 1) is the libvirt-lxc driver actively developed? there's been a lot of > > upgrades to lxc and there seems to be relatively little activity on the > lxc > > driver > > Yes it is. I don't know what are the features that lxc-tools introduced > and looking into their news files it seems like they are mostly fixing > bugs rather than introducing new functionality. Moreover, lxc-tools come > with some infrastructure (e.g. prepared images for containers). Libvirt > doesn't have those. > > > 2) is libvirt-lxc to be used in production to begin with? every single > > guide I found about libvirt pretty much points to KVM usage, with simple > > /bin/sh examples with lxc. Furthermore stuff like virt-install seems to > be > > exclusively catered to full os/KVM images creation, with no obvious way > to > > create a container image. > > That's because KVM (well, qemu) is our most intense developed driver. > But LXC gets some attention too. I think it is production ready and if > you give it some testing you'll find the same. > > Michal >
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