Subject: Re: [vserver] CentOS 6 client on Debian 5.0.8 and also CentOS 5 host failes with "Error performing checksum"
From: "Michael S. Zick" <mszick@morethan.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:36:13 -0500

On Thu September 15 2011, Guenther Fuchs wrote:
> Am 10.09.2011 13:10, schrieb Daniel Hokka Zakrisson:
> > You're probably better off building a template on a SL6 host and then
> > using that. Replacing rpm, yum, python components, etc. is IMHO too
> > much work to be worth it.
> Just not to run into a false way, would this be a proper way?
> 
> .) Install a CO6 minimal system in a Win VirtualBox
> .) rsync that sys to a vserver guest directory
> .) add the /etc/vserver files
> .) run the CO6 as guest system
> 
> Unfortunately I don't have a machine free nor a CO6 host available, so 
> I'd need to prepare a guest "in some other way".
> 

Hmm...
SL6 lists "Live CD" among their downloads.

Perhaps running in ram (which a live cd does) with the target hard
disks mounted somewhere in the fs tree is a way forward.

Mike
> Or is maybe a CO6 VServer host installation into a VirtualBox to build 
> the guest system there a better way to get a small guest system?
>