LXD VM Agent - fails to come online - with LXD 5.15 and large VM resource requirements

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There are a couple of issues with the testing approach I have outlined. I’ll try to make adjustments to conform with the advice in the following article. I am thinking this should help with robustly testing various commits from the LXD repo.

Building custom LXD binaries for side loading into an existing snap installation

This can be useful if you want to test a feature in a specific environment you already have set up, like a cluster or one with multiple projects, profiles, …, etc. You can place your newly compiled binaries in that environment as .debug files, restart the LXD daemon for the system to pick up these special binaries, test and then simply erase the .debug files and restart the daemon to revert back to normal. Note that if you test a code change that modifies your database, you will have to revert …