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How to install MI-LXC

Installation on Linux

First, you need to install SNSTER, the framework used by MI-LXC.

Then, to populate and use MI-LXC, you need to go in the mi-lxc/topology directory and run snster create.

Installation on Windows/MacOS/Linux (using Vagrant)

The vagrant subdirectory contains a Vagrantfile suited to generate a VirtualBox VM running MI-LXC inside. You need to install Vagrant and then, in the vagrant subdirectory, run vagrant up. You can then login as root/root. MI-LXC is installed in /root/mi-lxc and already provisionned (no need to create, you can directly start).

What is done with root permissions ?

  • Manipulation of LXC containers (no unprivileged LXC usage yet)
  • Management of virtual ethernet bridges with brctl, ifconfig and iptables (in mi-lxc.py:createBridges() and mi-lxc.py:deleteBridges(), around line 324)
  • Increase of fs.inotify.max_queued_events, fs.inotify.max_user_instances and fs.inotify.max_user_watches through sysctl (in mi-lxc.py:increaseInotify(), around line 278)

This is not ideal but is currently needed. An issue is opened on the topic but it is not currently planned.