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## page was copied from Running/VirtualMachine
This page explains how to set up and run Launchpad (for development) inside a LXC.

= Why? =

Launchpad development setup makes significant changes to your machine; its nice to be unaffected by those except when you are actually doing such development.

Also, launchpad has some limitations on concurrent testing per-machine and so forth - multiple container's can be used to work around this.


= Make a LXC =

 1. Install lxc

{{{
sudo apt-get install lxc
}}}

 1. Work around Bug:800456
{{{
sudo apt-get install cgroup-bin
}}}

 1. Work around Bug:784093

{{{
sudo dd of=/etc/cgconfig.conf << EOF
mount {
 cpu = /sys/fs//cgroup/cpu;
 cpuacct = /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu;
 devices = /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu;
 memory = /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu;
}
EOF
sudo service cgconfig restart
}}}

 1. Work around Bug:798476 (optional if you run i386 or have a -tonne- of memory and don't care about 64-bit footprint.
    Grab the patch from the bug and apply it to /usr/lib/lxc/templates/lxc-lucid. If you're running i386 already or want a 64-bit lxc then do not pass arch= on the lxc-create command line.

 1. Create a config for your containers
{{{
sudo dd of=/etc/lxc/local.conf << EOF
lxc.network.type=veth
lxc.network.link=virbr0
lxc.network.flags=up
EOF
}}}

 1. Create a container
{{{
sudo arch=i386 lxc-create -n lucid-test-lp -t lucid -f /etc/lxc/local.conf
}}}
    If you want to use a proxy
{{{
sudo arch=i386 http_proxy=http://host:port/ lxc-create -n lucid-test-lp -t lucid -f /etc/lxc/local.conf
}}}
    And if you want to set a custom mirror, similar to http_proxy, but set MIRROR= instead.

 1. Start it
{{{
sudo lxc-start -n lucid-test-lp
}}}
    Ignore the warning about openssh crashing - it restarts on a later event.
    The initial credentials are root:root.

 1. Grab the ip address (handed out via libvirt's dhcp server) - you may wish to ssh in rather than using the console (seems to have better termcap experience).
{{{
ip addr show dev eth0 | grep 'inet'
}}}

 1. The new container won't have your proxy / mirror settings preserved. Customise it at this point before going further if you care about this.

 1. (Outside the container) grab your user id and username so you can setup a bind mount outside the container:
{{{
id -u
id -nu
}}}

 1. Inside the container add the user:
{{{
adduser --uid $id $username
}}}

 1. To stop it now run 'poweroff -n'.

 1. Setup a bind mount so you can access your home dir (and thus your LP source code) from within the lxc container:
    * edit /var/lib/lxc/lucid-test-lp/fstab
    * Add a line:
{{{
/home/$username /var/lib/lxc/lucid-test-lp/rootfs/home/$username none bind 0 0
}}}
 
 1. Start it up again - headless now, we have the ip address from before.
{{{
sudo lxc-start -n lucid-test-lp -d
}}}

 1. ssh <vm IP address> to connect to the VM. Your ssh key is already present because of the bind mount to your home dir.

 1. You can now follow the [[Getting|getting-started]] on LP instructions. Be warned that changes in ~ will affect you outside the container.

 1. You probably want to follow [[Running/RemoteAccess]] has a discussion for how you can configure things so your non-container browser can access web pages from within the container.

= References =


= Alternatively =

You can also run in a [[Running/Schroot|chroot]] environment or a [[Runnining/VirtualMachine|VM]].