Re: [libvirt-users] libvirt-lxc: good for production?

On 04/03/2017 04:02 AM, Spike wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm a happy lxc (lxd) user with a need to add a bunch of KVM images to the > mix. More importantly I need to have some simple frontend to give users the > ability to quickly run some VMs for testing. > > Researching the topic brought me to virt-manager and from there libvirt. > I've had however a hard time to answer a few questions that I hope this > list can help me with: > > 1) is the libvirt-lxc driver actively developed? there's been a lot of > upgrades to lxc and there seems to be relatively little activity on the lxc > driver Yes it is. I don't know what are the features that lxc-tools introduced and looking into their news files it seems like they are mostly fixing bugs rather than introducing new functionality. Moreover, lxc-tools come with some infrastructure (e.g. prepared images for containers). Libvirt doesn't have those. > 2) is libvirt-lxc to be used in production to begin with? every single > guide I found about libvirt pretty much points to KVM usage, with simple > /bin/sh examples with lxc. Furthermore stuff like virt-install seems to be > exclusively catered to full os/KVM images creation, with no obvious way to > create a container image. That's because KVM (well, qemu) is our most intense developed driver. But LXC gets some attention too. I think it is production ready and if you give it some testing you'll find the same. Michal