Re: LXC containers to try different distros simultaneously

2014-01-18 Thread Michael Torrie
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 r

Re: LXC containers to try different distros simultaneously

2014-01-17 Thread Levi Pearson
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 01/17/2014 03:27 PM, Jonathan Duncan wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:36 PM, S. Dale Morrey >> wrote: >> >>> Have you looked at Docker? >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker_%28software%29 >>> >>> >> I have been using, with great

Re: LXC containers to try different distros simultaneously

2014-01-17 Thread Michael Torrie
On 01/17/2014 03:27 PM, Jonathan Duncan wrote: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:36 PM, S. Dale Morrey > 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). My understanding is

Re: LXC containers to try different distros simultaneously

2014-01-17 Thread Joseph Hall
So, now that I have more time, I wanted to elaborate a little on LXC, Docker, et al. I've never played with straight LXC, though at one point in my career I got to play around with OpenVZ quite a bit (LXC is supposed to be OpenVZ done right). The first time I played around with Docker, it was on m

Re: LXC containers to try different distros simultaneously

2014-01-17 Thread Jonathan Duncan
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Michael Torrie 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

Re: LXC containers to try different distros simultaneously

2014-01-17 Thread S. Dale Morrey
Have you looked at Docker? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker_%28software%29 On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Michael Torrie 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

Re: LXC containers to try different distros simultaneously

2014-01-17 Thread Joseph Hall
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 wrote: > Has anyone on the list use LXC containers? I was thinking today that > maybe they'd be i

LXC containers to try different distros simultaneously

2014-01-17 Thread Michael Torrie
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