[virt-tools-list] [PATCH 0/7] [RFC] Install LXC guests with virt-install

[Lubomir Rintel]

On Fri, 2018-03-23 at 10:42 +0100, Cedric Bosdonnat wrote:
> Hello Lubomir,
> 
> This whole feature looks very similar to what Radostin and I worked
> on last year:
> 
> https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-bootstrap
> 
> You should really have a look at that tool: it allows you to create a
> libvirt-lxc
> container out of a docker image, a tarball, or a virt-builder
> template. The good
> thing is that virt-manager also uses it for setting up a local OS
> container.

Sorry for the late reply, I somehow missed your message.

Thanks for pointing me to this. Sadly the tool doesn't seem to be
available for my distro (yet?).

I definitely intend to check it out.

Lubo

> 
> --
> Cedric
> 
> On Fri, 2018-03-23 at 10:16 +0100, Lubomir Rintel wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I do often use the libvirt_lxc containers with userns, and for
> > years
> > I've used hacky-ish shell scripts to create them, unable to figure
> > out a
> > sensible way to set them up. Perhaps virt-install is the right tool
> > to
> > do the job?
> > 
> > Chained up to this message is a patchset that adds the
> > functionality to
> > virt-install.  It is known to have some rough edges (the root
> > password is
> > unset, does the wrong thing if there are multiple <filesystem>s in
> > the VM,
> > remote installs are untested), but essentially is able to
> > initialize Debian
> > and Fedora containers:
> > 
> >   virt-install \
> >     --connect lxc:/// \
> >     --name fedora \
> >     --memory 512 \
> >     --idmap
> > uid_start=0,uid_target=1000000,uid_count=65536,gid_start=0,gid_targ
> > et=1000000,gid_count=65536 \
> >     --filesystem /var/lib/libvirt/filesystems/fedora,/ \
> >     --location http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/r
> > eleases/27/Server/x86_64/os
> > 
> >   virt-install \
> >     --connect lxc:/// \
> >     --name debian \
> >     --memory 512 \
> >     --idmap
> > uid_start=0,uid_target=1000000,uid_count=65536,gid_start=0,gid_targ
> > et=1000000,gid_count=65536 \
> >     --filesystem /var/lib/libvirt/filesystems/debian,/ \
> >     --location http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/
> > 
> > Does this approach look sensible? Does it make sense to address the
> > known issues in this and merge the functionality to virt-manager or
> > should this perhaps belong to a separate tool?
> > 
> > The diffstat looks optimistic.
> > 
> >  virt-install             |   9 ++-
> >  virtinst/__init__.py     |   1 +
> >  virtinst/lxcinstaller.py | 175
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  virtinst/urlfetcher.py   |  42 +++++++++++-
> >  4 files changed, 223 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Lubo
> > 
> > 
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