[lxc-users] No Redhat template

[Jon Brinkmann]

Thanks for your help.

I'm hesitant to use Centos repos, mainly due to its "acquisition" by
RH as a test bed for RHEL.  SL is and will remain more conservative,
cloning RHEL.  I'm not familiar with Oracle's policies, but I found
differences between their lxc instructions and Centos'.

I'll work on a SL template, which uses the SL repos, and submit it to
lxc-devel.

Thanks again,

Jon

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 03:50:33PM +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Tamas Papp <tompos at martos.bme.hu> wrote:
> >
> > On 02/18/2014 08:34 AM, Jon Brinkmann wrote:
> >> I'm trying to build containers in Scientific Linux, a clone of RHEL.
>
> >> However, when I attempt to create a container, I get:
> >>
> >>       # lxc-create -t redhat -n system1 -P /systems/
> >>       lxc_container: No such file or directory - bad template: redhat
>
> >> There's no sign of a redhat template.  How do I proceed?  Should I create
> >> a template for it from lxc-centos and submit it to lxc-devel?
>
>
> My question would be "what would you need redhat template for"?
>
>
> > There is no official template for redhat.... I guess because there is no
> > public redhat repository available.
>
>
> Correct. lxc uses public repositories and some kind of bootstrapping
> (yum, debootstrap, etc) to setup the guest container. Redhat does not
> provide access to such container.
>
> Submitting a scientific linux (SL) template would be a good idea, if
> you use it often and have something speicifc that only SL can provide.
> There's already oracle linux and centos template, If you just need a
> working redhat-clone.
>
> An alternative is to clone a working RHEL installation, and customize
> it for lxc (using the content of lxc-centos template script as
> example)
>
> --
> Fajar