On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 04:55:24PM -0700, Steven Truong wrote: > Hi, all. Thanks for your answers. Thank *smagnuson and* Mr. Poetzl . As Mr. > Poetzl suggested by those two commands, then we just build one guest server > and then (hard) copy by: 'cp -va' the whole guest server to the new one. Is > it possible that we bypass the user-space commands/utilities to clone a > guest this way? If so, then wonderful.
what do you mean by bypass user-space commands? > Btw, is it the best possible and portable way? please elaborate! best, Herbert > Thanks. > > On 10/18/05, Steven Truong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, all. It is a good idea to build a guest server with basic all around > > apps and then clone this basic server to other guest of the same > > distribution, in my case FC4. Then for each clone, I would be able to add > > specific apps to it. > > > > For this matter, I could not find enough information to try. It seems like > > for Gentoo distribution http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/vserver-howto.xmlshows > > that you can tar the whole guest server and then reuse this tarball. > > > > I also found vserver-copy and read the man page and tried this on my > > configured guest server. I got the following error trying to copy my lanweb > > FC4 guest server to a newtest guest server: > > > > vserver-copy -v lanweb/ newtest > > I: vserver-copy: called on abc-25 at Tue Oct 18 12:28:25 PDT 2005 > > newtest > > E: vserver-copy: Vserver file "/etc/vservers/lanweb/.conf" does not exist > > > > Coudl somebody tell me what .conf file and where/how to configure/find it? > > Is it the same file with /etc/vservers/lanweb/lanweb.conf file. Currently, I > > disabled/do not have this lanweb.conf file. > > In the man page, it also mention about /etc/vservers/vserver.conf and with > > my current settings, I don't have this file either. > > > > Could someone give me some information regarding all of these .conf files? > > > > > > Thank you in advance for all your helps. > > Steven. > > > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
