[Samba] [OT?] VM or Container for an AD DC?

[Rowland Penny]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:37:46 +0200
Marco Gaiarin via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Mandi! Andrew Bartlett via samba
>   In chel di` si favelave...
> 
> > There is a limitation for containers regarding xattrs as I
> > understand it, so you may need to go to a full DC.
> 
> ...googling around seems to me that are ''old limitation'', now gone.
> 
> 
> I've also hitted:
> 
> 	https://lists.linuxcontainers.org/pipermail/lxc-devel/2015-November/012789.html
> 
> so seems that 'samba-tool domain provision' check xattr compliance and
> rever to to tdb ACL if not.
> This check it is ''safe'' (full check)? Or i could end in some
> ''gray'' area?!
> There's some more checks i can do?
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 

I have run test Samba AD DCs in a VirtualBox VM and everything works
ok, so why not try it, if it doesn't work, then you haven't lost
anything ;-)

Rowland