On Wednesday, September 29, 2010, Gordan Bobic wrote: > Chuck wrote: > > i have a need for a modern redhat/fedora or suse vserver template 64bit. must be 64bit. i > > am having trouble locating such an animal. i have to check with the software vendors but > > it may be possible it will also run under centos 64bit but i dont want to run the > > troublesome 4.3 versions.. would need something newer. > > > > anyone know where i can get one? > > When you say template, do you mean the config file templates, or an > actual tar ball of a minimum install? I've recently made one for RHEL6b, > and that was pretty straight forward to derive from the config templates > available. Usual things about upstart distros apply (set init style to > "plain", and disable console output in the init configs). > > I found I also had to port the yum patches to the yum version included > with RHEL6b. I posted that here the other day, you should be able to > find it in the archives. For the rest I can send you a tar ball, if you > are interested in the RHEL6b configs. > > You will, of course, have to roll your own kernel with vserver patches, > but that's straightforward enough. I never bothered to rpm my kernel build. > i use gentoo on the host and that is already set for vserver and is running several. i just have a need for a recent redhat guest since an app we want to run requires redhat and wont run on anything else. my preference is to find a complete running vserver guest thatr i can just install and run and then add to as i need. > Gordan > -- Chuck