Subject: Re: [vserver] The quest goes on.
From: "Roderick A. Anderson" <raanders@cyber-office.net>
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:39:57 -0800

Ed W wrote:
> 
>> Now on to the real reason for this message.  Going over the web site I 
>> (re)found many HOWTOs for different host and guest combinations.  The 
>> one I didn't find was a Redhat/CentOS/Fedora guest via the "yum' 
>> method on a Gentoo host.  I don't currently have a play/practice 
>> system available to just try it.  I'm pretty sure this is possible if 
>> yum can be installed on Gentoo.  Anyone given this a whirl?
>>
>>
> 
> Yum is in the gentoo repo, but no idea if it does anything or works... I 
> would have thought getting the dependency database (or whatever it's 
> called) would be the issue?
> 
> That said - why on earth would you want to..?

Not necessarily me.  If a customer wants a CentOS or Debian guest and 
there is a Gentoo host can it be done.  And beside I'm just trying to 
have answers in case there is a question.


Rod
-- 
> If you are savvy enough to run Gentoo on your host then I can't really 
> see why you would ever deviate from that on the guests?  RPM based 
> distros are basically just a subset of gentoo...  ;-)
> 
> Ed W