On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 11:35 +0100, Papp Tamás wrote: > hi All, > Is there available any public howto about making templates for this distros?
Making templates? Or creating containers from templates? The former is highly non-trivial and should be done infrequently. The later is what most of us really need and don't much more frequently. The lxc-fedora and lxc-debian scripts really don't cut it for me. If they work (lxc-fedora, yes, lxc-debian on Fedora, no) the containers are not runable and lacking in a great deal of basic functionality, like sshd. Creating a template, I usually start from a very generic machine (either from a real machine or a base template) and add what I want, update it, and clean it up. Then I clone it off to make new machines I then fine tune to specific purposes. > I've found some, but I was still not successful. I come from the OpenVZ world where I've been working with a lot of containers and a lot of templates for many many years, including creating my own. This is where OpenVZ continues to shine above LXC and will for some time to come. It has a strong robust system for creating a variety of templates from metadata and keeping those templates up to date, but also a rich deep repository of pre-created templates for many many distributions and releases. Some of these are even contributed back to them from other users and developers. Here are the pre-created templates I've downloaded from their project: centos-4-x86_64.tar.gz fedora-12-x86.tar.gz centos-4-x86.tar.gz fedora-9-x86_64.tar.gz centos-5-x86_64-devel.tar.gz fedora-9-x86.tar.gz centos-5-x86_64.tar.gz gentoo-openvz-x86-2008.11.30.tar.gz centos-5-x86-devel.tar.gz slackware-12.0-i386-minimal.tar.gz centos-5-x86.tar.gz suse-11.1-x86_64.tar.gz debian-3.1-x86.tar.gz suse-11.1-x86.tar.gz debian-4.0-x86_64.tar.gz ubuntu-7.10-x86_64.tar.gz debian-4.0-x86.tar.gz ubuntu-7.10-x86.tar.gz debian-5.0-x86_64.tar.gz ubuntu-8.04-x86_64.tar.gz debian-5.0-x86.tar.gz ubuntu-8.04-x86.tar.gz fedora-10-x86_64.tar.gz ubuntu-8.10-x86_64.tar.gz fedora-10-x86.tar.gz ubuntu-8.10-x86.tar.gz fedora-11-x86_64.tar.gz ubuntu-9.04-x86_64.tar.gz fedora-11-x86.tar.gz ubuntu-9.04-x86.tar.gz fedora-12-x86_64.tar.gz I haven't actually fired up containers based on ALL of these templates (and there are more available) but I have done quite a few. With relatively little effort (mostly killing udev and recreating some tty device nods) these templates work like a charm with LXC. Make a directory for your container (I do all of mine under /srv/lxc), untar the template in that directory and apply hacks (like "echo 0" >> etc/udev/udev.conf" to kill udev) and it should at least start and you can get to fine tuning it. I hate sending people over there to just leach templates and I've worked with OpenVZ for ages and that's a great project to get started into containers if you are running on an older kernel but their precreated templates are here: http://download.openvz.org/template/precreated/ I doubt anyone here is interested in their meta-data (they're more than a little out of date). They do, however, have wiki pages on template creation that are pretty informative and generic enough to be applicable here. > Thank you, > > tamas > > Ps.: I'm pretty new to LXC, so the simpler, the better:) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation > Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business > Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts > Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com > _______________________________________________ > Lxc-users mailing list > Lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users > -- Michael H. Warfield (AI4NB) | (770) 985-6132 | m...@wittsend.com /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/ | (678) 463-0932 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/ NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all PGP Key: 0x674627FF | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it!
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