pickleMeTimbers
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Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
For sure. Interestingly, it looks like Stephane gave his resignation first:
> Following the announcement of my resignation, Canonical decided to pull LXD out of the Linux Containers projects and relocate it to a full in-house project [1].
Comment · 3 years ago
After a positive reception by the HN community five months ago [1, 2], this small project has reached a 1.0 milestone with:
* Encrypted instance import/export using age file encryption
* Secure credential configurations
* Instance autostart
* Multiple quality-of-life improvements, including instance tagging
The goal of this project is to enable MacOS users to:
* Easily spin up and manage lightweight Alpine Linux environments.
* Use tiny VMs to take advantage of containerisation technologies, including LXD and Docker.
* Build and test software on x86_64 and aarch64 systems.
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Comment · 3 years ago
We're using Multipass + Bravetools (https://github.com/bravetools/bravetools) / Docker to build system/application containers.
I believe multipass uses SSHFS (https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/how-to-improve-mounts-perform...) to mount filesystems between the host and the VM. Performance has been excellent.
Comment · 4 years ago
It's possible to use Apple's virtualisation framework when running native arch VMs in QEMU, for example setting -accel to hfv, seen here: https://github.com/beringresearch/macpine
UTM should also support this.
Comment · 4 years ago
This is also achieved through:
1) https://github.com/lima-vm/lima 2) https://github.com/beringresearch/macpine
With a nice CLI included.
Comment · 4 years ago
The biggest challenge was getting multi-arch builds sorted. Ended up putting together a layer on top of QEMU to run both x86-64 and aarch64 VMs (https://github.com/beringresearch/macpine). Have pre-baked VMs with LXD installed inside each instance, with main software builds taking place inside LXD containers - works pretty well so far.
With a view to use lightweight Linux VMs (alpine) to:
* Easily spin up and manage lightweight Alpine Linux environments.
* Use tiny VMs to take advantage of containerisation technologies, including Incus, LXD and Docker.
* Build and test software on x86_64 and aarch64 systems.