Have you played at all with Docker? I've only dabbled in it a little, but it was kind of fun to be running an (LXC) Ubuntu container on top of CentOS.
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Michael Torrie <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone on the list use LXC containers? I was thinking today that > maybe they'd be ideal for installing several desktop distros > simultaneously and using them on my desktop with full access to the > video hardware. I never have had good luck running things like Gnome > Shell or Cinnamon in a virtual machine (either KVM or VirtualBox). It'd > be nice to be able to try out the full distro experience without wiping > my current install. I realize all LXC containers share the same kernel, > so I'd have to have a fairly modern distro running as host. I did some > quick research and found a couple of people saying they run their > desktop environment in a LXC with full nvidia binary drivers even. > Apparently you just need to make sure the right device nodes are thunked > through into the container (say /dev/dri or /dev/nvidia*) and that the > GL drivers match the kernel driver version. > > Anyone had experience with LXC that would like to share his or her > experience? > > thanks > > Michael > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ -- "In order to create, you have to have the willingness, the desire to be challenged, to be learning." -- Ferran Adria (speaking at Harvard, 2011) /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
