Something wrong with the NCP LXD Container? tar.bz2 vs tar.gz

[michuvon]

First of all, thank you @nachoparker and all who have been involved to put together a LXD container.
In the near future, I would like to write documentation on how to use the LXC/LXD template, in general and on Proxmox in particular. But I run into some issues.

1. There is some inconsistency in the naming:

• On ownyourbits/nextcloudpi it says it's a tar.bz file.
• In ownyourbits/downloads it is a tar.bz2 file.
  I guess that is just a typo.

2. ownyourbits/nextcloudpi suggests "Run NextCloudPi in any system that supports LXC containers, such as Proxmox." however, Proxmox is using tar.gz for the LXC Templates. It is therefore not even possible to upload the NextCloudPi_LXD_10-08-21.tar.bz2 file.

I asked about this in the proxmox forum, Where I was suggested to simply try and rename. I tried with my Mac, but it did not work. It still won't let me upload it.

The question is, is the NCP LXD Container compressed correctly?

• Is tar.bz2the usual format for LXC/LXD and Proxmox with 'tar.gz' is simply using something strange?

Where can the LXD Container be run in its current stage, did someone try and test it successfully? Did I simply miss something?

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[nachoparker]

The filename extension doesn't come from a typo, but from doing lxc export. I do not what format Proxmox expects, so we would have to check what the process is to import an LXD image into proxmox.

At any rate, this is better suited for the forums

Where can the LXD Container be run in its current stage, did someone try and test it successfully? Did I simply miss something?

It's right there in the README.md -> https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloudpi#run-in-lxd

lxc import NextCloudPi_LXD_09-29-21.tar.bz
lxc start ncp

[michuvon]

ok, thanks.
In that case it is a case for the forum. Thanks, I will also try to get some more infos on the proxmox forum so we can write a doc on how to get the LXD container run in Proxmox.

You can close this issue.

[nachoparker]

awesome, thanks. You can link the forum post here for reference