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Replaced because minio is dead: https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/3258

comment by pritambaral · 2026-09-15 · in Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3

…blank ubuntu. Packer and Incus setup: packer { required_plugins { incus = { version = ">= 1.0.0", source = "github.com/lxc/incus" } } } source "incus" "ubuntu" { image = "images:ubuntu/24.04" output_image = "ubuntu-claude" type =…

comment by Grimburger · 2026-08-10 · in Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents

You can download the CLI client for Linux, Windows and MacOS from our Github releases: https://github.com/lxc/incus/releases/latest/ I've filed https://github.com/lxc/incus-os/issues/551 which we should be able to sort out later today.

comment by stgraber · 2025-11-14 · in Incus-OS: Immutable Linux OS to run Incus as a hypervisor

…correct, before correcting and submitting it; i.e. don't trust the results of the LLM). It links to https://github.com/lxc/incus/commit/54c3f05ee438b962e8ac4592... (add .patch on the end of the URL if it is not displayed), and I think the…

comment by zzo38computer · 2025-11-10 · in LLM policy?

…: lxc-copy supports btrfs, zfs, lvm, overlayfs lxc/incus: "Add OCI image support" https://github.com/lxc/incus/issues/908 opencontainers/image-spec; OCI Image spec: https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec opencontainers/distribution-sp

comment by westurner · 2025-09-17 · in How Container Filesystem Works: Building a Docker-Like Container from Scratch

…users wishing to migrate to Incus can easily do so through a migration tool called lxd-to-incus. https://github.com/lxc/incus

comment by paulhart · 2025-08-28 · in About Containers and VMs

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Incus: System container and virtual machine manager

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Incus – Powerful system container and virtual machine manager

story by kartikarti · 2025-04-27 · 0 comments

…[0] for managing LXC containers. It is very lightweight and has a great cli, give it a shot! [0] - https://github.com/lxc/incus

comment by udev4096 · 2025-04-21 · in The Joy of Linux Theming in the Age of Bootable Containers

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Initial Release of Incus

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Incus v0.1 released (community fork of LXD)

story by johnmaguire · 2023-10-07 · 4 comments

There is more explanation regarding the fork in the readme https://github.com/lxc/incus

comment by Alifatisk · 2023-09-20 · in LXD: Containers for Human Beings

It's sad that LXD ( https://github.com/lxc/lxd ) gets so little attention. It's a great compromise between a VM and a container as it doesn't have the 1:1 relation between container and process. I use it to great effect at $dayjob. Not…

comment by avhception · 2021-11-01 · in Containers vs. pods – taking a deeper look

…https://docs.ceph.com/ [7]: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/running-virtual-machin... [8]: https://github.com/lxc/lxd/issues/6205 [9]: https://criu.org/Main_Page [10]: https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/docs/master/storage

comment by hardwaresofton · 2021-04-09 · in Docker without Docker

…at. You would see examples of REST daemons, clustering, database access, auth, containers, etc. https://github.com/lxc/lxd

comment by tyingq · 2021-01-17 · in Ask HN: Which are the best Go repositories to read to learn the language?

Unfortunately, no: https://github.com/lxc/lxd/issues/7509

comment by kefyras · 2020-07-14 · in LXD – next generation system container manager release 4.3

…could adapt that to k3s. Though I suppose that's not a good match for the stated purpose of k3s. https://github.com/lxc/lxd/blob/master/doc/database.md https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/dqlite

comment by tyingq · 2019-02-27 · in K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes

Lxd uses distributed sqlite for it's config: https://github.com/lxc/lxd/blob/master/doc/database.md And there's this simplified fork of K8S that replaces etcd with sqlite: https://github.com/ibuildthecloud/k3s/blob/master/README.md

comment by tyingq · 2018-12-25 · in SQLite as an Application File Format (2014)

LXD has proxy devices, which allows you to map your host's port to your containers ports. https://github.com/lxc/lxd/blob/master/doc/containers.md#typ... Makes life very easy, I used to have to mess with iptables too but with proxy device…

comment by artellectual · 2018-12-13 · in LXD 3.8 has been released

Here is that feature request for the PROXY protocol, https://github.com/lxc/lxd/issues/4786 Was reported on July 14th and committed on July 19th.

comment by simosx · 2018-12-13 · in LXD 3.8 has been released

…licensing and contributing guidelines Signed-off-by: Stéphane Graber <stgraber@ubuntu.com> Source: https://github.com/lxc/lxd There is a migration path from LXC to LXD and probably the OP migrated at some point in time.

comment by simosx · 2018-12-13 · in LXD 3.8 has been released

Yes, dqlite is currently used for clustering support in LXD 3.0: https://github.com/lxc/lxd

comment by free-ekanayaka · 2018-04-06 · in Distributed SQLite for Go applications

…to lxc, which is being developed by Canonical (of Ubuntu fame). You can see how they're using it in https://github.com/lxc/lxd/tree/master/lxd/cluster . Dqlite and rqlite are not in the same space as postgres and mysql, they're more…

comment by strken · 2018-04-06 · in Distributed SQLite for Go applications

…output. Installing xserver-xorg-legacy fixes this. 2) LXC+Linux 4.4 seems to be very broken: https://github.com/lxc/lxd/issues/1666#issuecomment-21290311... 3) Pulseaudio now uses shared memory and playing audio inside a firejail will…

comment by ivank · 2016-04-21 · in Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

…LXC didn't define a container format, unlike other container tools that built upon it, like LXD: https://github.com/lxc/lxd/blob/master/specs/image-handling....

comment by icebraining · 2015-06-23 · in Docker, CoreOS, Google, Microsoft, Amazon to Develop Common Container Standard

…certainy docker at the moment is more popular. However I don't think LXD is ubuntu specific, see https://github.com/lxc/lxd https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/03/20/installing-lxd-and-th... I've just compiled it on Fedora 22 and both the…

comment by baghira · 2015-05-24 · in Convert Servers to Docker Containers

Also lxd https://github.com/lxc/lxd and in the course of juju, canonical wrote client libraries for quite a few clouds as they didn't exist at the time. openstack -> https://github.com/go-goose/goose (imho the best one out there.) goamz ->…

comment by kapilvt · 2015-02-24 · in Simplicity and the ideas Go left behind

…Solutions Product Manager" version: LXD is a whole new semantic ... meaningless. Coder version from https://github.com/lxc/lxd : "a REST API, command line tool and OpenStack plugin based on liblxc". 'Nuff said.

comment by contingencies · 2014-11-07 · in Where We're Going With LXD

LXD will be pushed upstream into LXC (to someday replace lxc) at github.com/lxc/lxd [0] [0]: https://lists.linuxcontainers.org/pipermail/lxc-users/2014-N...

comment by wernerb · 2014-11-04 · in The new hypervisor LXD

…binding from S.Çağlar. Now as to what this means for LXC upstream: - A new project will be setup at https://github.com/lxc/lxd . - Code to this project will be contributed under an Apache2 license, no CLA is required but we will require…

comment by pella · 2014-11-04 · in The new hypervisor LXD

''"A new project will be setup at github.com/lxc/lxd."'' ( source: http://osdir.com/ml/general/2014-11/msg06783.html )

comment by pella · 2014-11-04 · in The new hypervisor LXD