[lxc-users] red hat/centos guest support

[Tamas Papp]

On 06/12/2014 03:54 PM, Dwight Engen wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jun 2014 10:14:38 +0200
> Tamas Papp <tompos at martos.bme.hu> wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>> How is the red hat guest support?
>> For example is it easily possible to tell to the centos template
>> script to use a repository on a cdrom or in an iso file? Or something
>> like that.
>>
>>
>>
>> Also regarding the upgrade/update path.
>> Is there a safe way to update a centos container? I remember, in the
>> past there were local changes in the template, that had to be redone
>> every time after 'yum update', like commenting out '/sbin/start_udev'
>> from /etc/rc.sysinit.
>> Are there such a necessary step? Can I ruin my container with regular
>> updates?
> Hi Tamas,
>
> The Oracle template does both of these for OracleLinux so it should be
> possible to do for RedHat/CentOS since they are all very similar,
> though I don't think they currently support it. Installing from a
> dvd/.iso can be done via --baseurl=file:///mnt. Handling a yum update
> inside the container is done by calling the template from a yum plugin
> to re-patch the rootfs.

Thanks, I'll check it!


Meanwhile I was wondering, why templates are different. They should use 
a template(:O) at least for the configuration files (config, fstab) 
format....etc, shouldn't they?
Also oracle, redhat, sl and centos templates should be very-very similar 
to each other.


tamas