Subject: Re: [vserver] Create a paldo guest?
From: "Roderick A. Anderson" <raanders@cyber-office.net>
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 07:24:32 -0700

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
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> 
> best,
> Herbert
> 
>> TIA,
>> Rod
>> --