[lxc-devel] Fedora 13 & lxc-debian / lxc-fedora templates

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 09/02/2010 11:43 AM, v1t03k wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm testing here right now some lxc template scripts.
> I have here some troubles with setting up a debian instance on Fedora 13
> (2.6.34.6-47.fc13.x86_64).
>
> First, I can't setup a lenny system on my Fedora 13 host. I get these
> errors:
>
> I: Configuring apt...
> I: Configuring openssh-server...
> I: Configuring perl...
> I: Configuring libui-dialog-perl...
> W: Failure while configuring base packages.
> I: Configuring openssh-server...
> W: Failure while configuring base packages.
> W: Failure while configuring base packages.
> W: Failure while configuring base packages.
> W: Failure while configuring base packages.
> Failed to download the rootfs, aborting.
> Failed to download 'debian base'
> failed to install debian
> failed to execute template 'debian'
>
>
> But Debian squeeze is working well. I did two changes to the lxc-debian
> script:
> ->  Change line 93 to "dhcpd" insteed of dhcp-client for lenny
> ->  and line 113 from lenny to squeeze release.
>
> Is it a problem of the old glibc on lenny. I can't figure out what the
> problem is....
>
> Second, setting up a fedora 10 VM isn't working too. I get similar errors:
> /bin/bash: /var/cache/lxc/fedora/partial-x86_64/lib64/libc.so.6: version
> `GLIBC_2.11' not found (required by /bin/bash)
> /bin/bash: /var/cache/lxc/fedora/partial-x86_64/lib64/libc.so.6: version
> `GLIBC_2.11' not found (required by /bin/bash)
> /usr/bin/febootstrap: line 93: 26634 Segmentation fault      (core dumped)
> febootstrap-run "$target" -- rm -rf /var/cache/yum/febootstrap-updates
> Failed to download the rootfs, aborting.
> Failed to download 'fedora base'
> failed to install fedora
> failed to execute template 'fedora'
>
> I think we should move to the newest releases by the new lxc tools version.
>
> There are few things in lxc-fedora script that are not needed for setup a
> fedora 13 system:
> ->  Line 27 changed to: Fedora-13 release
>
> ->  Line 39 changed to: cat<<EOF>
> $rootfs/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> DEVICE=eth0
> EOF
>
> ->  Deleted the whole section on line 56
>
> ->  Deleted all lines from 85 to 109
>
> ->  keepd only these one
> chroot $rootfs /bin/bash -c 'cd /etc/init; for f in $(ls plymouth*.conf); do
> mv $f $f.orig; done'
>
>
> Can anybody confirm what we really need for setting up a fedora 13
> instance???
>    

Hi Vic,

Thanks for investigating.

The major problem I see with these scripts is they work on a specific 
distro but not on another distro depending on the tools version. The 
scripts are very basic, they don't take care of the host distro version, 
neither the guest version (eg. the ubuntu template without any parameter 
to specify karmic or lucid).

There is a lot of work to do here with these scripts and perhaps a good 
idea would be to create first a set of containers (f11, f12, f13, f14, 
lucid, karmic, lenny, squeeze, opensuse, etc ...) where we can check the 
different template scripts will work on them and will install correctly 
a container.

Thanks
   -- Daniel