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Re: openvz and SuSE [message #1201 is a reply to message #1195]

Fri, 03 February 2006 10:43

Daniel Bauer
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From: "Kir Kolyshkin" <kir@openvz.org>
> Daniel Bauer wrote:
>> From: "Kir Kolyshkin" <kir@openvz.org>
>>> Daniel Bauer wrote:
>>>> ok, that sounds good, I'll have a try with SuSE.
>>>
>> Is there a howto for creating templates, or should I start with
>> building the directory tree by myself?
>
> No, there is no formal howto, but somehow people manage to find out
> all the details. It is probably not that hard, and there are two
> approaches:
>
> (A)
> Currently our template tools can use yum-enabled repositories, so the
> way to go is:
> 1. Take yum-enabled repo (or create one from a bunch of RPMS using
> createrepo).
> 2. Take one of the existing OS templates metadata and find out what is
> it.
> 3. Create a metadata for your OS template, based on the above.
> 4. Run vzpkgcache to create a template cache.
>
> (B)
> Alternative approach is just to install a set of packages into
> chrooted environment (in RPM world you use 'rpm -i --root' for that,
> in Debian world you use 'debootstrap'), then do some fine tuning and
> finally tar this environment. The final tarball can be placed to
> /vz/template/cache and used as a template. Basically, you need to
> install some basic stuff - system libraries, init scripts, useful
> binaries etc.

ok I'll have a try with SuSE ;)

>> Why is the stuff double in private and root, I thougt that the root
>> is only the mounted stuff from private?
>
> It is not doubled. You can think of it as a bind mount (although it's
> a bit more than that).
> Private is a source for mount (i.e. what we mount), while root is a
> mountpoint (i.e. where we mount it).

ok, that is what I understood, but when I stop the VPS, the root is
still full of content, shouldn't it be unmounted?

Daniel

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		openvz and SuSE By: Daniel Bauer on Wed, 01 February 2006 13:25
		Re: openvz and SuSE By: kir on Wed, 01 February 2006 13:43
		Re: openvz and SuSE By: Daniel Bauer on Wed, 01 February 2006 15:06
		Re: openvz and SuSE By: kir on Wed, 01 February 2006 17:00
		Re: openvz and SuSE By: Daniel Bauer on Thu, 02 February 2006 16:27
		Re: openvz and SuSE By: kir on Thu, 02 February 2006 17:06
		Re: openvz and SuSE By: Daniel Bauer on Thu, 02 February 2006 18:36
		Re: openvz and SuSE By: Daniel Bauer on Fri, 03 February 2006 08:59
		Re: openvz and SuSE By: kir on Fri, 03 February 2006 09:20
		Re: openvz and SuSE By: Daniel Bauer on Fri, 03 February 2006 10:43
		Re: openvz and SuSE By: kir on Fri, 03 February 2006 11:04
		Re: openvz and SuSE By: Daniel Bauer on Fri, 03 February 2006 12:35
		Re: openvz and SuSE By: kir on Fri, 03 February 2006 12:48
		Re: openvz and SuSE By: dim on Fri, 03 February 2006 09:30
		Re: openvz and SuSE By: Daniel Bauer on Fri, 03 February 2006 10:40
		Re: openvz and SuSE By: dim on Fri, 03 February 2006 10:52
		Re: openvz and SuSE By: Daniel Bauer on Fri, 03 February 2006 12:38
		Re: openvz and SuSE By: dim on Fri, 03 February 2006 13:00
		Re: openvz and SuSE By: Daniel Bauer on Fri, 03 February 2006 13:37
		Re: openvz and SuSE By: dim on Fri, 03 February 2006 15:03
		Re: openvz and SuSE By: jbond007 on Wed, 08 February 2006 15:43
		Re: Re: openvz and SuSE By: dim on Wed, 08 February 2006 15:52
		Re: Re: openvz and SuSE By: jbond007 on Wed, 08 February 2006 17:07
		Re: Re: Re: openvz and SuSE By: dim on Thu, 09 February 2006 09:23
		Re: Re: Re: openvz and SuSE By: jbond007 on Thu, 16 February 2006 03:11
		Re: Re: Re: openvz and SuSE By: dev on Thu, 16 February 2006 06:38
		Re: Re: Re: openvz and SuSE By: jbond007 on Thu, 16 February 2006 14:50
		Re: Re: Re: Re: openvz and SuSE By: dev on Fri, 17 February 2006 06:17
		Re: Re: openvz and SuSE By: Daniel Bauer on Wed, 08 February 2006 18:14
		Re: Re: openvz and SuSE By: jbond007 on Thu, 09 February 2006 01:47

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