I've just tried it and it seems to be working well! I heard that some OSX
users were seeing huge huge performance problems with vagrant. Something
about having to run it inside a vm. I imagine running lxc inside a vm is
much less painful than running virtualbox....
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Dan Duvall <dduvall(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Thanks a ton, Bryan!
I know many users have been concerned with the hefty memory requirements
(not to mention VT-x requirements) of MW-Vagrant+VirtualBox, especially on
lower end hardware. This should be a huge help.
Labs users can definitely look to benefit from this feature as well (once
the Vagrant 1.7.x kinks are worked out [0]).
[0]:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/193665/
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Bryan Davis <bd808(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
We have working support for installing
MediaWiki-Vagrant in an LXC
container now!
See the instructions in support/README-lxc.md [0] for a description of
how to use it from a Ubuntu 14.04 host computer. Patches are welcome
giving alternate instructions for other distributions. Note that
Vagrant 1.7+ is required for the latest version of the vagrant-lxc
plugin that this uses so you will probably not be able to install
Vagrant from a package repo unless you are running Debian unstable.
Making using MediaWiki-Vagrant a lighter weight experience for users
who are running Linux on their laptops. I took a shot at this right
after Wikimania last year by figuring out how to use MediaWiki-Vagrant
to provision a Docker container. That experiment made a system that we
too unstable for me to promote anyone using it as more than a proof of
concept. Since then I've "been meaning to" try out LXC by using the
vagrant-lxc plugin [1] and last weekend I finally found the time.
Thanks to Marko Obrovac and Dan Duvall for helping test this.
[0]:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MWVA/browse/master/support/READ…
[1]:
https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-lxc
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