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Blincus

Incus Installation

Post-Install

Incus Admin Group

Make sure to add your user to the incus-admin group:

Terminal window
usermod -aG incus-admin `whoami`

Logout or reboot for the group membership to take effect.

Sub UID and Sub GID

You also need to edit /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid to add two sets of ID maps.

The first set allows Incus to create unprivileged containers as root:

Terminal window
echo "root:1000000:1000000000" | sudo tee -a /etc/subuid /etc/subgid

The second set allows Incus to map your user ID on to host to your user in the container to allow for seamless file sharing.

Terminal window
echo "root:1000:1" | sudo tee -a /etc/subuid /etc/subgid

Test Incus

Before running blincus, make sure Incus is ready. Start a container:

Terminal window
incus launch images:ubuntu/22.04 mytest

If the launch succeeds, make sure your instance has a network connection. You can run incus ls to see a list of running instances and basic information about them.

Terminal window
incus ls


| mytest | RUNNING | 10.0.1.175 (eth0) |      | CONTAINER | 0         |

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