On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Gregor at HostGIS <[email protected]>wrote:
> Do I always need a distro to run OpenVZ ? In my case, I don't use a >> distro but just kernel+initrd+my own application >> > > Do you mean, can you run your mini-OS as a guest within a OpenVZ container? Very probably! If your "not a distro" can boot and run on normal hardware, > you should be able to: > > * take a snapshot of the installed system > * prune out the kernel and modules > * tar it up again > * then deploy it as a container template > > There's a lot of tinkering involved, but the basic answer is that if it'll > boot and run on hardware, it'll likely work in a container. > > -- > Yes. My mini-OS boots first on the system and my application currently runs on the mini-OS. I plan to move the application (and if necessary the part of mini-OS as required by OpenVZ) as a guest within the OpenVZ container. Hope this is possible. Please let me know. One related Q : does OpenVZ support mips and powerpc too? (I know it supports x86). --Nirmal
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