[Lxc-users] opensuse containers

[Ramez Hanna]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Brian K. White <brian at aljex.com> wrote:

> On 4/7/2011 4:43 AM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> > On 04/06/2011 09:07 PM, Ramez Hanna wrote:
> >> i have fixed the fedora script earlier when i needed fedora containers
> >> but now i need several opensuse containers, but my knowledge of opensuse
> >> isn't that deep
> >> did anyone create a lxc-opensuse?
> > Nope, I created an opensuse container, so I know that works well but I
> > didn't created the template.
> > As far as I remember, it is very similar than the fedora container.
>
> Not really.
>
> I have a slightly out of date manual recipe here:
> http://en.opensuse.org/LXC
>
> opensuse has nothing like febootstrap which the fedora template relies
> on. The closest they have (without using an autoinst.xml) is zypper, but
> it still requires some user interaction no matter what.
> Much of the rest of the setup is different too.
>
according to febootstrap developer and the thread with subject "fedora
template"  it is no longer usable in that way
so i had created a different template using only yum
so i beleive it could be done in the same way ith zypper i'll look into it


> I never made this into a template script because I hadn't yet decided if
> it was better to do this or do something based on an autoinst.xml
> instead. I follow this recipe myself when creating new containers if I'm
> not starting by copying a previously created container.
>
> It could be improved though. Some steps are unnecessary wrt the network
> config files in /etc, they just satisfy yast so the container looks more
> like a regular system to an admin who might use yast not realising he's
> even in a container.
>
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> bkw
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