On 01/17/2014 10:53 PM, Levi Pearson wrote: > Unless Vagrant has got some new backend support recently, the role > that it plays for Mac is to set up a VirtualBox or VMware Linux VM to > run Docker on. Docker itself already has a configuration language to > set up custom images. And Docker is a really slick tool, but I don't > think it's what you're looking for. Although it does a full Linux > install, it doesn't actually run the full distro in most cases. The > disk image is mostly there for the libraries and such, and the real > point of Docker is to run sandboxed single processes (or a small group > of processes, like nginx+node+mongodb or something) without a lot of > overhead. Docker is like a chroot-on-steroids, not really a 'run a > full guest OS' thing.
Yes I agree with your assessment. I'm not looking for deploying servers or dev environments. Thought it appears Docker still might be the tool to set up the initial containers, the I can tweak them. > The userspace tools that come with LXC, on the other hand, are set up > to run the init process of the installed image and give you a whole > sandboxed environment. They come with some scripts to install various > distros, but unless there's been a lot of work on them recently, they > don't work very well outside of Debian or Ubuntu images, or really > really old Fedora. There were some issues with systemd as the init > process of a container; I think the systemd guys worked through the > issues but I'm not sure if those have made it out to the systemd-based > distros yet. > > Anyway, it sounds like the sharing of graphical resources with a > container is possible, and you can probably set it up with the lxc > configuration tools, but I don't think it's a well-supported use case > right now. It would be pretty cool, though, so definitely report back > if you're successful. Thanks, I definitely will. In the meantime, here's a post that describes doing more or less what I want. He basically has each container on a different vt (X11) and can ctrl-alt-F# between them! http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27397563 And also this is interesting (and might be of interest to some of you): http://www.stgraber.org/2012/11/16/running-steam-in-a-lxc-container/. In fact it might be the main recipe I will want to use. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
