[Users] I'm testing out vzpkg2!

[Robert Nelson]

Scott Dowdle wrote:
> Robert and Kir,
>
> I spent quite a bit of time testing today.  My testing environment was a RHEL 5.2 x86_64 host node.
>
> I tried to create an OS Template for every distro, distro version, and arch.  Then I created containers from each "default" OS Template.  Previously I mentioned I was going to do minimal/small but since a few smalls decided not to build, I decided to create containers from "default" OS Templates instead.
>
> Once a container was created I'd test the following things:
>   1) vzctl enter and see what processes were running
>   2) If apache wasn't installed/running, I'd install it
>   3) I'd browse the default webpage from my workstation
>   4) I'd install mc and run it
>
> If I have my numbers correct, that's 44 OS Templates and 19 containers.  Below are my findings.
>
> OS Template Building Issues:
> The following OS Templates would NOT build:
>   fedora-8-i386-small,
>   fedora-8-x86_64-small,
>   fedora-9-i386-small,
>   fedora-9-x86_64-small

> I got the following error:
> mv: cannot stat `/vz/root/100001/etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo': No such file or directory
> ERROR: Script install-post failed
>
>   

I haven't tested the small ones, but I'll take a look.  Up till now I've 
concentrated on the minimal.list versions.

> Container start problems:
> The following OS Templates would start but I would not let me vzctl enter them:
>   ubuntu-feisty-amd64-default,
>   ubuntu-feisty-i386-default,
>   ubuntu-gusty-amd64-default,
>   ubuntu-gusty-i386-default,
>   ubuntu-hardy-amd64-default,
>   ubuntu-hardy-i386-default
>
> I got the following error:
>   Unable to open pty: No such file or directory
>   

I'll check this out.  As I said above, I've done my testing using 
minimal.list for all the combinations.  I'll take a look at default.list.

> I believe the network was operational in the containers I could not enter because they would answer pings but vzlist only showed processes running none of which were network services I could test.
>
> So of the 44 OS Templates, 4 failed to build (Fedora 8/9 i386/x86_64 small).
> Of 19 containers, 6 failed testing (all Ubuntu).
>
> Conclusions:
> I'm impressed with how well it worked.  I'm impressed that the OS Templates were built to configure yum so that the containers would use the pkg-cache repos... and that I didn't have to reconfigure .repo or sources-list files to point to the local cache.
>
> I do wonder if it is possible to use vzpkg2 without pkg-cacher?  I myself plan to use it (although I already have my own local repos) but perhaps not everyone would want to use it.
>
>   

It is not only possible it is quite easy.  You just need to edit the 
vzpkg.conf file in the template_dir/OS/config directory.

> Robert.  Wow.  I'm impressed.  There are still some issues... but those are usually easily fixed minor details.  Expect my interview questions email this weekend... now that I know how it works, it gives me a better idea on what to ask.
>
> TYL,
>   

Thanks, I look forward to the questions.