[lxc-users] ArchLinux images on images.linuxcontainers.org

[Leonid Isaev]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 01:39:21AM +0300, Artyom Aleksyuk wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've found that there's no ArchLinux images on images.linuxcontainers.org.
> Arch is a pretty popular distro with a mainly fresh software. Sometimes you
> need to have a newest version (not yet packaged in repos) of several
> programs on your Ubuntu machine, and using Arch container is one of the
> easiest and cleanest ways to solve this problem.

FYI, Arch provides official rootfs images, see
http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/iso/2016.03.01/ .

You don't need any images or templates because those are mostly about devices
and root password. However, Arch uses systemd and runs inside LXC without any
configuration, so you unpack the image, chroot into it and do a minimal config.
Assuming that you have already lxc config in place, of course.

Cheers,
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Leonid Isaev
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