How To Setup the nc-env Virtual Machine

Introduction

While it is advised to run nc-env directly in your machine, we also provide a virtual machine image with a pre-configured nc-env environment.

It is a Ubuntu Desktop system, that means that you have a graphical interface in it.

Pre-requisites

A machine where you can run LXD daemon (Linux or macOS, as Windows only supports the LXD client), with at least 30 GB of free space.

Downloads

Download the virtual machine and the storage volume from:

https://chat.x51-hserver.com/s/aajB2E9PeKSAXqR

Configure your host

Install lxd. See the official documentation.
Initialize lxd. See the official documentation.

Create a storage pool called nc-env-vm-pool.

If you have a free device or partition:

 $ lxc storage create nc-env-vm-pool zfs source=/dev/<name of device> zfs.pool_name=nc-env-vm-pool

Otherwise:

 $ fallocate -l 30GB nc-env-vm-pool.disk
 ## Find the first unused device
 $ sudo losetup -f
 /dev/loop19
 $ sudo losetup /dev/loop19 nc-env-vm-pool.disk
 $ lxc storage create nc-env-vm-pool zfs source=/dev/loop19 zfs.pool_name=nc-env-vm-pool

Create the profile prf-nc-env-vm:

 $ lxc profile create nc-env-vm-prf
 $ lxc profile set nc-env-vm-prf boot.autostart false
 $ lxc profile set nc-env-vm-prf limits.memory 6GiB
 $ lxc profile set nc-env-vm-prf limits.cpu 4
 $ lxc profile device add nc-env-vm-prf root disk path=/ size=20GB pool=nc-env-vm-pool
 $ lxc profile device add nc-env-vm-prf eth0 nic nictype=bridged parent=lxdbr0 name=eth0

Import the virtual machine:
```
 $ lxc import nc-env-vm.tar.bz2
```

Import the volume called nc-env-vm-storage and attach it to the virtual machine

 $ lxc storage volume import nc-env-vm-pool nc-env-vm-storage.tar.bz2
 $ lxc storage volume attach nc-env-vm-pool nc-env-vm-storage nc-env-vm

Start the virtual machine and open a graphical console into it
```
 $ lxc start nc-env-vm
 $ lxc console --type vga nc-env-vm
```
You are now ready to create your first container-based Nextcloud environment!