Subject: Re: [vserver] how to register new distribution and where vserver log is?
From: "Daniel Hokka Zakrisson" <daniel@hozac.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:14:42 +0100 (CET)

Yuji Nishida wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Summary: I want to know two things.
> 1)How to register new distribution?

Create a directory in /etc/vservers/.distributions with all the files you
need to build a guest using said distribution.

> 2)Where can I find vserver log?

There's no such thing, as Linux-VServer consists of a lot of different
parts. Enabling the context debugging should show you that the context
exits because there are no processes left in it anymore.

> Environment:
> # uname -a
> Linux node7 2.6.22.10-vs2.2.0.5 #1 SMP Wed Feb 6 00:49:00 JST 2008
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> # vserver --version
> vserver 0.30.214 -- manages the state of vservers
> This program is part of util-vserver 0.30.214
>
>
> I want to register new distribution for vserver guest.
> I refered to this page (http://archives.linux-vserver.org/200507/0140.html
> )
> and did it. But vserver guest couldn't start correctly.
> I executed to do it with verbose option but the output was not enough
> to understand what's going on.
> Also, I have not found vserver log of starting the guest in my box.
> If I had that, I could look into it by myself.
>
> This is all what vserver showed me at starting guest of new
> distribution.
> #vserver -v guest start
> New network context is 40034
> Adding
> New security context is 40034
>
> If vserver starts correctly, I could find these output below.
> Starting system logger: ...
> Starting kernel logger: ...
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -----
> Yuji Nishida
> nishidy@nict.go.jp
>


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Daniel Hokka Zakrisson