> 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? > > >
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:36 PM, S. Dale Morrey <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you looked at Docker? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker_%28software%29 > > I have been using, with great success, Vagrant (http://www.vagrantup.com). /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
