[Lxc-users] Working LXC templates?

[Frederic Crozat]

Le mercredi 28 août 2013 à 10:31 -0700, Tony Su a écrit :
> Was wondering if there is a source for working LXC templates for
> deploying non-native distros.
> 
> 
> Although I'm working on openSUSE, it looks like the default provided
> templates are generic, for example author for the fedora template is
> Daniel Lezcano and the ubuntu template is Serge Hallyn.
> 
> 
> An example of current difficulties is that the Fedora repo system
> appears to have been restructured in a major way. I've partially made
> modifications to the fedora script (which was likely created sometime
> around fedora 14) by modifying the repo string to "add" a "f" letter
> to the path as follows
> 
> RELEASE_URL="$MIRROR_URL/Packages/f/fedora-release-$release-1.noarch.rpm"
> 
> 
> But after locating the package and downloading,
> 
> A series of errors follow beginning with a pycurl error unable to
> verify the remote host using SSL.
> 
> 
> Although I can investigate how to disable the check, I thought I might
> first ask whether anyone knows of LXC scripts where you can be on a
> Host running one distro and run a different distro (preferably at
> least Fedora 18, but interested in others as well).
> 
> 
> BTW - If anyone else is following what I've done to this point on
> openSUSE, I also figured out how to pass the "release" parameter in
> the template since although the template describes passing that
> parameter from the command line, it's not supported by lxc-create on
> openSUSE.

Unfortunately, I had to "adapt / fix" the openSUSE template for each
release of openSUSE, which is why trying to make a "version agnostic"
template for openSUSE won't work (at least for now). That's why the
version is hardcoded in the template.


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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat at suse.com>
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