incus_container_gui_setup

Setup of running GUI applications in a incus container

Tested on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Tested on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Tested Hardware: GPU, Sound, Microphone, Camera

Tested GUI: X11 apps, Qt-based GUI apps, GTK-based apps, Snap apps, System-tray apps

Tested Drivers: ROCm 6.0.2, ROCm 6.1.2, ROCm 6.1.3

Tested input method: ibus

Tested nested container: docker

Tested AI Tools: Llama.cpp, Ollama, Perplexica, Piper-TTS

Install Incus on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

sudo apt install -y incus

sudo adduser $LOGNAME incus-admin

newgrp incus-admin

incus admin init

Install Incus on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
wget -qO - https://pkgs.zabbly.com/key.asc | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/zabbly.asc
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/zabbly-incus-stable.sources

Add the following content:

Enabled: yes
Types: deb
URIs: https://pkgs.zabbly.com/incus/stable
Suites: jammy
Components: main
Architectures: amd64
Signed-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/zabbly.asc

Run:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y incus
sudo adduser $LOGNAME incus-admin
newgrp incus-admin
incus admin init

View available Images

To list all available images:

incus image list images:

Filter available images, e.g.:

incus image list images:ubuntu

incus image list images:22.04

incus image list images:debian

To filter images that work with cloud-init:

incus image list images:cloud

Run GUI Apps

Tested on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Tested on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Resources

incus info --resources

To add a device, read https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/reference/devices/

Log information

incus info --show-log ub

Delete

To delete a container:

incus delete mycontainername

Uninstall

sudo apt remove --autoremove incus incus-base

On Ubuntu 22.04, also run:

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/zabbly-incus-stable.sources /etc/apt/keyrings/zabbly.asc