[lxc-devel] Anyone with some prebuilt templates laying around they could share?

[lxc at usr.fi]

This can do the job for archlinux:

https://raw.github.com/tokland/arch-bootstrap/master/arch-bootstrap.sh

On 06/02/13 23:06, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> A recent threat on the lxc-users reminded me that I'm lacking a few
> templates for testing under LXC.  OpenVZ has a number of prebuilt
> containers (like CentOS) for download which some people (myself) have
> used to create containers where we don't have prebuilt templates or the
> lxc-templates we have do not function cross-distro.
> 
> For example...
> 
> On a Fedora host, I can create an Ubuntu container, thanks to deboot.
> 
> On an Ubuntu host, I can create a Fedora container using feboot.
> 
> I don't see an equivalent for Arch on either.  I can tell you that
> trying to create an Arch container on Fedora host will fail miserably
> trying to use lxc-create.  That template seems to be strictly
> like-on-like, which is sad.  There is no Arch template in OpenVZ to even
> give me a start, so I'm out of luck there.  How do we bootstrap an Arch
> system with packman on a system which does not have packman?
> 
> Anyone with an Arch container prebuilt template they could share?
> 
> Regards,
> Mike
>