Subject: Re: [vserver] current guests
From:Benedikt Böhm <bb@xnull.de>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:36:36 +0200


On Aug 20, 2008, at 8:05 PM, Herbert Poetzl wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:47:28PM -0400, Chuck wrote:
>> where can i find a current gentoo i686 guest stage3? everything i  
>> look
>> for is dated 2006. not interested in applications pre-installed so
>> not interested in i think what is called stage4. just want a bare o/s
>> vserver. or do i need to install a 2006 version then go thru all the
>> upgrade motions?
>
>> i think some time ago there was a package available that would take
>> a current standard stage3 and convert it to vserver. is that still
>> around if i need to go that route?
>
> had a short chat with Daniel, and we came to the
> conclusion that any gentoo stage3 should work
> with recent util-vserver and the 'gentoo' build
> method ...

any stage3 with baselayout-2/openrc will work out of the box
see https://my.newthinking.de/~bbo/stages/ for up to date stage4  
tarballs (these are the ones i use for work, so they contain some  
basic utils)

Bene