Virtualization

Although I am a Debian Developer (not very active, BTW) I am using Ubuntu LTS (right now version 24.04.1) on my main machine; it is my work laptop and I was told to keep using Ubuntu on it when it was assigned to me, although I don’t believe it is really necessary or justified (I don’t need support, I don’t provide support to others and I usually test my shell scripts on multiple systems if needed anyway). Initially I kept using Debian Sid on my personal laptop, but I gave it to my oldest son as the one he was using (an old Dell XPS 13) was stolen from him a year ago. I am still using Debian stable on my servers (one at home that also runs LXC containers and another one on an OVH VPS), but I don’t have a Debian Sid machine anymore and while I could reinstall my work machine, I’ve decided I’m going to try to use a system container to run Debian Sid on it. As I want to use a container instead of a VM I’ve narrowed my options to lxc or systemd-nspawn (I have docker and podman installed, but I don’t believe they are good options for running system containers). As I will want to take snapshots of the container filesystem I’ve decided to try incus instead of systemd-nspawn (I already have experience with it and while it works well it has less features than incus). Installing incusAs this is a personal system where I want to try things, instead of using the packages included with Ubuntu I’ve decided to install the ones from the zabbly incus stable repository. To do it I’ve executed the following as root: # Get the zabbly repository GPG key curl -fsSL https://pkgs.zabbly.com/key.asc -o /etc/apt/keyrings/zabbly.asc # Create the zabbly-incus-stable.sources file sh -c 'cat <<EOF > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/zabbly-incus-stable.sources Enabled: yes Types: deb URIs: https://pkgs.zabbly.com/incus/stable Suites: $(. /etc/os-release && echo ${VERSION_CODENAME}) Components: main Architectures: $(dpkg --print-architecture) Signed-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/zabbly.asc EOF'...