Hi, I'm making an uclibc/busybox based linux distro based on gentoo, Alpine linux. I have managed to get vserver started and I can bootstrap a debian etch vserver. (I think its prettty cool, minimalistic grsec'ed vserver host on tmpfs from a cd/usb. memory usage less than 60MB) Now I would like to add support for alpine as a vserver guest but I cannot really find out how to handle the init. First I tried to use plain init. It booted with minor issues related the fact that it uses busybox init. But when I try to stop the vserver I only get: "reboot: no". Its busybox reboot/halt command that tries to kill pid 1 and when it fails it just gives up. But what I really need is only to run /etc/init.d/rcL on start and /etc/init.d/rcK && killall5 on stop so I thought I would try to start an initstyle called "alpine" by modifying /usr/lib/util-vserver/vserver.functions: --- /usr/lib/util-vserver/vserver.functions.orig Tue Jul 31 11:43:26 2007 +++ /usr/lib/util-vserver/vserver.functions Tue Jul 31 11:45:01 2007 @@ -322,7 +322,11 @@ Your vserver ($(basename "$vdir")) seems to have baselayout-$basever, please use 'plain' init-style instead!" ;; - + (xalpine) + INITCMD_START=( /etc/init.d/rcL ) + INITCMD_STOP=( /etc/init.d/rcK killall5 ) + INITCMD_PREPARE=( $_FAKE_RUNLEVEL 3 /var/run/utmp ) + ;; (x) ;; (*) panic "Unknown init-style '$INITSTYLE'; aborting";; esac But when I tried to start it I get: ~ $ vserver alpine start vshelper.init: can not determine xid of vserver 'alpine'; returned value was '' An error occured after executing the vserver startup sequence. This means that some processes may exist in the created context and the manual execution of /usr/sbin/vserver '/etc/vservers/alpine' stop is recommended to fix this. I tried to dig around in the bash script to find out whats going on but I cannot figure out whats going on. Any pointers? Would you be interested in patches so next official release of util-vserver has support for alpine linux? If you want to try alpine as vserver host, then download alpine-1.7.3 from: http://dev.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v1.7/iso/ or boot from usb: http://dev.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v1.7/usbdrive/ You can also install the base system (2-3MB?) in a directory, designed for mini vserver guests, using the albootstrap script: http://dev.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v1.7/albootstrap sh albootstrap /vservers/alpine Thanks! Natanael Copa