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Asked: 2020-02-18 04:55:19 +0800 CST

Access to LXD from a snap

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I am trying to build a snap which accesses the local LXD service. There is a snap interface for LXD, but trying to use this gives me connection errors.

The (very brief) documentation of the interface requires you to set LXD_DIR to /var/snap/lxd/common/lxd. I tried both that as well as /var/lib/lxd/.

I am currently running Ubuntu 18.04 with a apt based installation of LXD 3.0.3. Is it possible, that the snap interface only works for a snap based installation of LXD? If yes, is there some way to interface to a apt based LXD from within the snap?

apt snap lxd

1 Answers

  1. Yes, to use the lxd-support snap interface, you need to migrate to the LXD snap package.

    Note that your snap package needs to manually connect to the lxd-support interface.

    If you want your snap to access the deb package of LXD, then you need to forgo all protections in snap packages. Use either classic or devmode confinement.

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