Am 01.02.2023 um 06:01 schrieb Robert McBroom via users
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On 1/31/23 06:06, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-01-31 at 00:00 -0500, Robert McBroom via users wrote:
>> I see discussions of container tech with lxd and docker on ubuntu.
>> dnf
>> will install docker. Anyone have experience with a windows virtual
>> machine with these systems?
> If you mean running a Windows VM with a container as the hypervisor,
> AFAIK that's not possible. A container is much lighter than a full VM
> environment and won't in general allow emulation of a completely
> different OS, which is one reason they are popular.
There is a tutorial for ubuntu,
https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/how-to-install-a-windows-11-vm-using-lxd#1-o...
LXD started once as a (new) management tool for LXC container (mostly system containers in
contrast to Docker). Later (I think with version 4) they expanded to manage VMs as well.
So, you might be able to manage a virtual Windows instance with LXD, but you don’t use
container technology.
Fedora doesn’t include a LXD RPM. There is a RPM in COPR [1], which is maintained by one
person, who is very active (at least in the past, I actually don’t use it anymore). And
you can install it via another packaging tool, snap. So LXD on Fedora might not be such a
superior user experience.
[1]
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ganto/lxc4/
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