Is there a known way to export a finished LXC container antlet that can be imported into other hypervisors?
I have several antlets (lxc) that are taking up valuable resources on my Antsle and I would like to move them to a different environment like ProxMox, VirtualBox, or VMWare.
I have tried tar -czvf on the directory structure of the antlet but not much luck with it yet.
TIA
A container antlet's root filesystem is a ZFS dataset on your antsle, and zfs list shows its mountpoint. Stop the antlet, then archive the root filesystem while keeping numeric owners and permissions, for example: tar --numeric-owner -czpf myantlet.tar.gz -C /path/to/rootfs . Proxmox can create a new LXC container directly from a tarball like that (pct create, with the tarball as the template).
VirtualBox and VMware run full virtual machines rather than containers, so for those, create a new VM with the same OS and copy your data and configuration over.
— Antsle Team
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