LXC Containers - Where are they stored

Apps and Virtualization
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So this is an issue that is not address in the documentation and I was hoping for some clairfication

  • Am I right in thinking you can only set which pool an LXC container will be installed on? You cannot set your own dataset (eg containers?
  • Where are the containers stored?
    • <pool>/.truenas_containers/ v27?
    • <pool>/.ix-virt/containers/ v25?
  • the containers are hidden in the GUI, on purpose?
  • when you create a container, the name you give it is what is used for the containers folder? Is the name converted to lowercase?
  • Currently it is not possible to snapshot a LXC container?
    How to snapshot LXC containers in 25.10.3?
  • does anyone know what permission the LXC containers use? POSIX?

If someone could clear this up it would be very useful

thanks

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I’ll have to look through my posting history because I’ve looked it up once in the last few weeks, but I’m not home right now

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ok the root file system for incus container under 25.10 are stored under:

/var/lib/incus/storage-pools/containers/
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but incus is not longer user, it is all LXC based?

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On 25.10 incus is still the backend for lxc container, it will switch over to libvirt in truenas 26

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@LarsR I thought they had got rid of that incus stuff. Thanks for the heads up, I will not even look at containers until the libvirt system is in-place. But for my notes I will get a V26 demo loaded up on VirtualBox.

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Only for vms, those already got reverted back to libvirt…

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Should pool names all be lowercase with no hypens.