[Lxc-users] Dependencies Use Cases

[Huang Liang]

It would be great if lxc itself can solve these nuance problems,
because I found at least more than one version of tutorial/howto to
guide you run different containers on different host machines; and the
currently shipped lxc distribution has not been tested in all
container/host combinations.

The advantage of shipping container images rather than building cache
rootfs in templates are two - it is faster to extract a tar ball; and,
as far as I know, it make it possible to run debian/ubuntu container
on centos since centos does not have debootstrap and you can not
create debian image on centos.

Toft is merely a simple wrapper to help people test infrastructure
code. It could be more simpler in the future if it does not have do
things that should be in lxc.

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Daniel Baumann
<daniel.baumann at progress-technologies.net> wrote:
> On 11/04/2011 01:16 PM, Huang Liang wrote:
>> Check out toft: https://github.com/exceedhl/toft. It provides rpm and
>> deb packages which already handles the dependencies on centos and
>> ubuntu.
>
> why would one want this instead of using lxc from your distributions
> repository?
>
>> Moreover, it packages the bind and dhcp setup on the host
>> machine  and ships with pre-created images, saves a lot of time of
>> hassling around these issues.
>
> that particular 'problem' we're going to solve in debian within about a
> week when lxc provides linux-container (a generic version of something
> similar what lxcguest in ubuntu and for ubuntu-only does) and live-build
> therefore can build proper system images for lxc containers that are
> shipped through .debs and which are going to be prefered over caches in
> /var/cache/lxc in debians lxc package. don't know what ubuntu has in
> mind for such use cases.
>
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