Crostini: setup lxd client in penguin container - DennisLfromGA/CBC-Projects GitHub Wiki

source: kgersen/setup-lxd for crostini.txt

Prerequisites assumed -

  1. Signed-in to Chromebook
  2. 'Linux (Beta)' enabled in Settings

Get into a crosh session and get things going -

  • Press ctrl+alt+t
  • vsh termina (or vmc start termina if it's not running)
  • lxc start penguin (if it's not running)

Enable LXD to listen to the network and setup a trust password -

  • lxc config set core.https_address :8443
  • lxc config set core.trust_password [some-password]

Create an Ubuntu container (if not existing) -

  • lxc launch ubuntu:18.04 c1

Copy the lxc command from it -

  • lxc file pull c1/usr/bin/lxc /tmp/lxc

Copy it to penguin -

  • lxc file push /tmp/lxc penguin/usr/local/bin/
  • rm /tmp/lxc
  • lxc delete c1 (if you don't want it any longer)

Get termina address, note the host ip ([HOSTIP] here after) in the ipv4.address line -

  • lxc network show lxdbr0

Make it the default remote so all LXD commands go to it by default -

  • lxc remote add chromeos [HOSTIP] (use the password [some-password] used for lxc config...)
  • lxc remote set-default chromeos

All done...

Test if it works -

  • Launch 'Terminal' app
  • lxc list
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