[Users] 1/2 OT: installing vz images remotely

[Kirill Korotaev]

I don't forsee any problems here...
1. just unpack tar archive with tar utility,
2. then remove all the files which are not in .tar archive

(maybe statically linked tar will be required... though unlikely)

Kirill

> Hi folks,
> 
> 
> I've hired some openVZ based virtual servers and I'd like to build
> my whole image with an sysroot'ed (cross-)toolchain - what comes
> out is an tarball with the complete system image. 
> 
> The problem: the providers don't allow to pull in own templates,
> just reinstall from their prebuilt images (ie. stripped down 
> debian, redhat or suse). 
> 
> My idea was to build an statically linked busybox and some little
> shell script, which just wipes out the existing system and unpacks
> my tarball. 
> 
> Has anyone already did this ? Any hints for that ?
> 
> 
> thx