Hi Mike,
I use SuSE SLES 9 guests, except I cheated.
I just copied an entire "minimal" install and I use that (+ vserver config
file) as the vserver "base". Yep it's a big on the heavy side (at 220+
packages) but it seems to work just fine. And I use YAST inside my SLES 9
Vservers to connect to a local YOU update mirror (also running inside a
Vserver) and it all seems to work just fine.
Wow, thats great! Exactly what i need!
i've tried that one week ago (with suse 9.2 prof.) ...
(1) made 2 partitions
(2) installed suse to each partition (making 2 minimal installations)
(3) used the one as vserver-host, the other as a template for a vserver
(4) deploy-vserver ... skeleton
(5) copied the template to there
(6) replaced fstab
(7) done some thinks i don't remind
(8) tryied to start and it doesn't work :-((
(9) searched a bit but no solution found
i think i've done some big mistake in step 7 ... so i will retry next
weekend ... and post the result ...
This may not help you though as it sounds like you want a nice, tidy
solution!
no ... i want a fully-featured-minimal-suse that fits the requirements for
some closed-source products like confixx (and others)
On a positive(?) note, SuSE SLES 10 will incorporate Xen 3 into it and so
you won't need Vservers at all to run virtualized SuSE instances. Of
course
that's not due for release until 1st Quarter of next year!
Hmm come to think of it, SuSE 9.3 has Xen packages available now, but I'd
use Vservers over Xen at the moment. However this may well change in
August
when Xen version 3.0 comes out. There's lots and lots of news at the
moment
about various big name vendors backing Xen, as well as stuff about it
being
put into the mainstream Linux Kernel shortly.
That are interesting news for me ...
But i've to set up a webserver in the next month ...
Thanks!
Oliver
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