Incus is a next generation system container and virtual machine manager. Incus, which is named after the Cumulonimbus incus or anvil cloud started as community fork of Canonical's LXD following Canonical's takeover of the LXD project from the Linux Containers community. The project was then adopted by the Linux Containers community, taking back the spot left empty by LXD's departure. Incus is a true open source community project, free of any CLA and remains released under the Apache 2.0 license. It is maintained by the same team of developers that first created LXD. LXD users wishing to migrate to Incus can easily do so through a migration tool called lxd-to-incus. The incusd server runs as root with client access via various "incus" commands. A particular user group can be assigned whose members are able run incus commands without becoming root. The default group is wheel but a different group may be used, as desired, by setting the INCUSD_GROUP environment variable when running this SlackBuild e.g. INCUSD_GROUP=incus-admin bash incus.SlackBuild In this case, users belonging to the incus-admin group are able to run incus commands successfully. The incus-admin group does not exist in a default Slackware installation so it would need to have been already created. To start incusd by hand, ensure that the /etc/rc.d/rc.incusd file is executable and then run: /etc/rc.d/rc.incusd start To start incusd automatically whenever the system boots, add the following snippet to /etc/rc.d/rc.local # Start incusd if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.incusd ]; then . /etc/rc.d/rc.incusd start fi