[Lxc-users] fedora template

[Ramez Hanna]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 2:19 AM, Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com>wrote:

> Quoting Ramez Hanna (rhanna at informatiq.org):
> > I have been working on a fedora template that actually works
> > febootstrap is not anymore producing fedora rootfs but rather a minimal
>
> Really, febootstrap can't be used to create a rootfs at all any more?
>
yes as mentioned here http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/febootstrap/
--quote--
febootstrap 3.x is a complete rewrite. febootstrap 2.x could only build
Fedora distributions. This version can build many varieties of Linux
distros. 3.x only builds supermin appliances, it does not build chroots.
--unquote--

>
> > fedora appliance
> > my solution works by using yum instead, but I am facing a really weired
> > situation
> > whenever i start my fedora container, it would actually try to change the
> > init level of the host
> > host is f14 and container is f14
> > could anyone shed some light on how the container is actually being
> > isolated, so i can start from there
> > or how can i debug?
> > script used to create the container attached, it is based on the current
> > template with a few modifications here and there
>
> Note that for me to use this template on ubuntu, I have to specify '-R 14',
> but lxc-create doesn't allow me to forward that option.  So I have to
> first create the config file and then run fedora2 by hand.  After that,
> for some reason I still have no actual rootfs :(.
>
this is a typo in the script i fixed it, find the latest version attached

>
> As for trouble with init - is your fedora using systemd?  How does it
> actually start runlevel changes?  Upstart uses dbus over abstract unix
> socket (which is containerized with netns), sysvinit uses ioctl over
> /dev/init which is a distinct file from the one in the container...
> Does systemd do something we're not containerizing right now?
>
fedora 14 uses upstart, not yet systemd which is coming along with fedora15
I have a previously created container with febootstrap of fedora 13 and that
works, 13 also uses upstart
so it must be some config
i tried to diff the packages but couldn't see anything that makes sense

>
> I'd love to get a working fedora template.
>
i'd love to be able to create new fedora containers

>
> thanks,
> -serge
>
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