[Lxc-users] lxc-centos on Ubuntu 12.04

[Kim C. Callis]

Ok, I am good and lost... I thought it would be as simple as adding your
script to /usr/share/lxc/templates and then doing:

*$ sudo lxc-create -n centosbox -t centos -- - user*
*
*
No config file specified, using the default config
/usr/bin/lxc-create: line 297: type: /usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-centos:
not found
unknown template 'centos'
aborted

So what is the trick to getting the template accepted?


On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha <list at fajar.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Papp Tamas <tompos at martos.bme.hu> wrote:
> > On 02/05/2013 01:56 PM, Roland Neary wrote:
> >> Nothing exciting, I modified a few values such as dns servers which
> were hardcoded into the script
> >> but not appropriate for my setup.
>
> > Well, it's not really good.
> > config file and fstab file are not created by default (for me) after
> this command:
> >
> > $ /lxc-centos -n container -p /data/lxc/container
> >
> >
> > After that the rpm database is a bit broken.
> > Do you see orphaned files int the output of the this command?
>
>
> Yeah, creating RH/centos on Ubuntu/Debian is quite a hassle. Try mine:
>
> https://github.com/fajarnugraha/lxc/blob/centos-template/templates/lxc-centos.in
>
> After trying several methods, I found the best method to work around
> rpm issue is by invoking yum twice: once using the Ubuntu hosts's yum
> command (which results in broken rpmdb version and locations), and the
> next one using the newly-created-rootfs' yum (which will create a
> "correct" rpm database). The downloaded rpm files are preserved
> between runs (copied, to be exact), so there's no extra bandwidth used
> for the second yum process.
>
> The script is pretty much self-explatanory, so if you want to just
> pick some parts of it, feel free to do so.
>
> --
> Fajar
>
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