Inquiry on current state of LXC (and resource allocation)

[amyipdev]

Hey y'all! proxmox-nixos is exactly the solution I've been looking for to do what I need to do, thanks to everyone who's contributed.

I've been looking at the "Make LXC Works" issues but have had a hard time tracking what actual progress has been made there, and how LXC containers are made currently and how they would be made post-PR. My intended use case is 100% LXC based, but Proxmox's LXC implementation works a lot better for what I need than Incus/LXD, which is the entire reason I'm using Proxmox in the first place.

How would I go about making containers declaratively under the current system, and post-PR? (love that I can just drop in Is this something where additional patches may need to be created similar to the declarative-vms module, and if so how can I help?

Also, I use impermanence and a tmpfs for my /. This works fine, except that I do have some disk space allocated that I want to add as my "local" storage for images. I also will be adding an LVM logical volume set shortly, but I don't see how I'd add that in; this may just be my naivete with proxmox-nixos, as I've generally just relied on local-lvm having been pre-provisioned on my non-NixOS Proxmox systems.

[amyipdev]

@tieong @JulienMalka pinging for visibility #142

[tieong]

Hi,

You're looking at a messy branch, this one is a lot cleaner and the actual candidate for the PR here

Making containers declaratively has not been discussed yet, my main focus has been on making unprivileged lxc containers works without errors via the pct cli and the web ui and adding nixos test for it.

Also made the pveam update command work so that you can download container templates from the cli/web ui

Just need to commit some changes I have locally, the one thing that I am missing is the apparmor support for lxc I don't think this will go in the PR as I'm not that well versed in it.