[Devel] CentOS Images and openvz

[Scott Dowdle]

Greetings,

----- Original Message -----
> I'm involved with the CentOS Project, and wanted to reach out.
> 
> Over the last few months we've had a fair few people complain about the
> CentOS Linux templates/ images shipped along with the openvz stack.
> Forgive me for not having a good comprehension around the openvz
> ecosystem. However, I'd like to reach out and see if there was anything
> we could do around helping fix issues or generally improve the user
> experience when deploying CentOS Linux 6/7

I'm just a user and am not involved with the design and implementation of the OpenVZ OS Template build systems... but I do contribute a few OS Templates to OpenVZ Legacy.

I think the best thing you could do would be to pass along the complaints... as they really should not be directed toward the CentOS Project in the first place.

It would be interesting to hear what the complaints were.  Generally speaking, some folks seem to complain that they are too big (too many packages pre-installed) for their tastes.  Other than that, I haven't heard too much.

The basic way they are assembled is by installing a set of packages into a chroot and then making some minor changes (like an apache config change that has 1 server started rather than 5), and then just compressing that either as a .tar.gz (OpenVZ Legacy) or as a compressed disk image (Virtuozzo 7).

I do appreciate you reaching out and encourage you to continue to do so in the future with any other OpenVZ related matters.

TYL,
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Scott Dowdle
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