[lxc-users] CentOS container on RHEL host

[U.Mutlu]

Hi Donald,
maybe the following links could be relevant for you:
  http://images.linuxcontainers.org/images/
  http://vagga.readthedocs.org/en/latest/builders.html

cu
Uenal


Donald Stahl wrote, On 01/19/2015 03:13 AM:
> I've never had a problem creating or running containers that match the host
> OS- but now I need to create a CentOS container on a RHEL host and it's not
> working the way I thought it would. Either I'm doing something wrong- or I
> don't understand how LXC actually works.
>
> I'm executing the following command:
>
> lxc-create -t centos -n <hostname>
>
> I would expect this command to create a container with a CentOS userland -
>
> i.e. cat /etc/redhat-release would result in "CentOS release 6.6 (Final)"
> as the output.
>
> Or if I specified -- --release 5 (assuming they're compatible) then I would
> expect to find a 5.11 userland.
>
> However in every case I always end up with a RHEL 6.6 container (the same
> as the host OS).
>
> As I said- I'm obviously doing something wrong- or I have misunderstood LXC
> templates.
>
> Can anyone clear this up for me?
>
> Running LXC version 1.0.7 from the EPEL repository on RHEL 6.6.
>
> Thanks,
> -Don