snapd + LXD work fine on CentOS 7, it's even in our CI environment, so presumably the same steps should work on RHEL 7.
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 10:54 AM Fajar A. Nugraha <l...@fajar.net> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 3:15 PM Harald Dunkel <harald.dun...@aixigo.de> wrote: >> >> On 2/25/19 4:52 AM, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: >> > >> > snapcraft.io <http://snapcraft.io/> is also owned by Canonical. >> > >> > By using lxd snap, they can easly have lxd running on any distro that >> > already support snaps, without having to maintain separate packages. >> > >> >> The problem is that there is no standard for all "major" distros, >> as this discussion shows: >> >> https://www.reddit.com/r/redhat/comments/9lbm0c/snapd_for_rhel/ >> > > You mean "RHEL doesn't have snapd"? You'd have to ask redhat then. > >> >> Debian already has an excellent packaging scheme. > > > Sure. > > The question now is "is anybody willing to maintain debian lxd packages" > >> >> The RPM world >> doesn't follow snapd, as it seems. > > > Really? > https://docs.snapcraft.io/installing-snap-on-fedora/6755 > >> >> And if you prefer your favorite >> tool inside a container you can find docker images everywhere. >> >> A few years ago compatibility was achieved on source code level. >> Sorry to say, but you lost that for lxd. And snaps are not a >> replacement. >> > > In the past I've built private RPMs for lxd on centos. It became a hassle > though as (for example) I need to port additional packages as well. And I > needed to change the kernel to a newer one, unsupported by centos. But it > works. > > So if you're willing to build from source, it should still work. > > -- > Fajar > _______________________________________________ > lxc-users mailing list > lxc-users@lists.linuxcontainers.org > http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users -- Stéphane _______________________________________________ lxc-users mailing list lxc-users@lists.linuxcontainers.org http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users