[Users] Distro necessity for OVZ

[Nirmal Guhan]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Gregor at HostGIS <gregor at hostgis.com>wrote:

> Do I always need a distro to run OpenVZ ? In my case, I don't use a
>> distro but just kernel+initrd+my own application
>>
>
> Do you mean, can you run your mini-OS as a guest within a OpenVZ container?

Very probably! If your "not a distro" can boot and run on normal hardware,
> you should be able to:
>
> * take a snapshot of the installed system
> * prune out the kernel and modules
> * tar it up again
> * then deploy it as a container template
>
> There's a lot of tinkering involved, but the basic answer is that if it'll
> boot and run on hardware, it'll likely work in a container.
>
> --
>

Yes. My mini-OS boots first on the system and my application currently runs
on the mini-OS. I plan to move the application (and if necessary the part of
mini-OS as required by OpenVZ) as a guest within the OpenVZ container. Hope
this is possible. Please let me know.

 One related Q : does OpenVZ support mips and powerpc too? (I know it
supports x86).

--Nirmal
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