Re: [vserver] Create a paldo guest?

From: Roderick A. Anderson <raanders_at_cyber-office.net>
Date: Mon 17 May 2010 - 15:24:32 BST
Message-ID: <4BF151A0.2080502@cyber-office.net>

Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:02:43PM -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
>> I don't remember seeing any mention, on the web site or in a message
>> thread, of creating a guest from a _non-typical_ distribution.
>
> the worst case scenario is installing that distro in
> a virtual machine (e.g. kvm) and then copying over
> the resulting installation to a sekelton guest
>
> you might then want to clean up stuff like hardware
> related initialization and filesystem mounting
>
>> While researching why I can't get XML::Parser to install in a CentOS 5
>> guest with a '/usr/local/' Perl 5.10.1 install (eg. using the tarball) I
>> found Paldo and it looks to be a good idea for the type of LV guests I
>> create and use.
>
>> Is this possible? If so what terms should I be using to search?
>
> definitely, see above and the util-vserver - build --help
> for building skeleton guests

Thanks Herbert.

Rod

-- 
> 
> best,
> Herbert
> 
>> TIA,
>> Rod
>> -- 
Received on Mon May 17 15:25:01 2010
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