Chuck wrote: > 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. So, you want a tar ball of /vserver/<guestname>, rather than the /etc/vservers/* configs? i.e. you don't want to do a vyum type install? I can certainly build you a basic tar ball of a RHEL6b system (don't have a CentOS 5 setup handy at the moment, and you probably shouldn't be putting a beta version into production). I think you'd have to internalize the package management if you don't have yum on the host, though. You'd also have to make sure that your kernel is of a suitable version. IIRC, RHEL/CentOS 5.x and derivatives have problems with kernels 2.6.28+. Gordan