Subject: Re: [vserver] VServer: Is fakeinit obsolete ?
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:44:01 +0100

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 08:41:16PM +1100, Declan Mullen wrote:
> Hi

please do not hijack threads, and please (for your
own good) do not use newvserver :)

best,
Herbert

> Using Debian's "newvserver" utility to create VServer guests, there does 
> not seem to be any difference between a guest created with the 
> "--fakeinit" option and a guest created without the option. Ie they both 
> look as if they were created with the "--fakeinit" option. Eg when 
> starting them,  from the host's command line neither shows their init.d 
> services being started, and from within each guest ps shows an "init" 
> process.
> 
> Should I be seeing a difference ?
> 
> Both host and guests are Debian Lenny. The host's kernel is Lenny's
> "linux-source-2.6.26" (version "2.6.26-13") with Lenny's vserver patches
> applied from "linux-patch-debian-2.6.26" (version "2.6.26-13"). The
> host's util-vserver package is version "0.30.216~r2772-6". The
> host's "vserver-debiantools" package is version "0.6.3".
> 
> The guests were created via:
> 
>  newvserver --vsroot /var/lib/vservers/ --hostname maxv1 \
>   --domain jadplace.com --ip 192.168.0.121/24 --fakeinit \
>   -mirror "ftp://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian"
> 
> and
> 
>  newvserver --vsroot /var/lib/vservers/ --hostname maxv2 \
>   --domain jadplace.com --ip 192.168.0.122/24            \
>   -mirror "ftp://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian"
> 
> Many thanks,
> Declan
>