I've just tried it and it seems to be working well! I heard that some OSX users were seeing huge huge performance problems with vagrant. Something about having to run it inside a vm. I imagine running lxc inside a vm is much less painful than running virtualbox....
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Dan Duvall <dduv...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Thanks a ton, Bryan! > > I know many users have been concerned with the hefty memory requirements > (not to mention VT-x requirements) of MW-Vagrant+VirtualBox, especially on > lower end hardware. This should be a huge help. > > Labs users can definitely look to benefit from this feature as well (once > the Vagrant 1.7.x kinks are worked out [0]). > > [0]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/193665/ > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Bryan Davis <bd...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > We have working support for installing MediaWiki-Vagrant in an LXC > > container now! > > > > See the instructions in support/README-lxc.md [0] for a description of > > how to use it from a Ubuntu 14.04 host computer. Patches are welcome > > giving alternate instructions for other distributions. Note that > > Vagrant 1.7+ is required for the latest version of the vagrant-lxc > > plugin that this uses so you will probably not be able to install > > Vagrant from a package repo unless you are running Debian unstable. > > > > Making using MediaWiki-Vagrant a lighter weight experience for users > > who are running Linux on their laptops. I took a shot at this right > > after Wikimania last year by figuring out how to use MediaWiki-Vagrant > > to provision a Docker container. That experiment made a system that we > > too unstable for me to promote anyone using it as more than a proof of > > concept. Since then I've "been meaning to" try out LXC by using the > > vagrant-lxc plugin [1] and last weekend I finally found the time. > > Thanks to Marko Obrovac and Dan Duvall for helping test this. > > > > [0]: > > > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MWVA/browse/master/support/README-lxc.md > > [1]: https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-lxc > > -- > > Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <bd...@wikimedia.org> > > [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA > > irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > > -- > Dan Duvall > Automation Engineer > Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
