[Users] LiveCD OpenVZ

[Nirmal Guhan]

Thanks. This is what I did :

# ls
centos-4-x86.tar.gz  fedora-9-i386-minimal.tar.gz
centos-5-x86.tar.gz  owl-current-20100323-i686.tar.gz

# vzctl create 501 --ostemplate owl-current-20100323-i686
Unable to get full ostemplate name for owl-current-20100323-i686
Creating container private area (owl-current-20100323-i686)

Then it hangs for ever. I suspect something to do with the ostemplate
name. Could someone shed some light? Googling tells this message can
be ignored but I doubt.

Thanks,
Nirmal

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Solar Designer <solar at openwall.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 03:10:31AM -0700, Nirmal Guhan wrote:
>> Am trying to use the livecd option in
>> http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/live_CD (CentOS) after futile attemps
>> to get openvz working using other methods. While I can boot the
>> 2.6.9-42.livecd.c4 kernel, I just can't boot 2.6.18-028stab035  or
>> other flavors required for OpenVZ. In this case kernel and initrd load
>> into memory but after that I don't see anything on the console :(
>>
>> Has anyone faced similar issues with these stable releases?
>
> I am sorry for not addressing your specific question (I've never tried
> the CentOS live CD), but why don't you try the currently-maintained Owl
> live CD instead?  If you run into any issues with that (although you
> should not - it works very well for us indeed), we'd be happy to help
> you and we'll consider fixing any issues there might be.
>
> The Owl live CD is the third option listed at:
>
> http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/live_CD
>
> It contains newer versions of both the OpenVZ kernel and the vz* tools
> than the other two options do.  You may also download from:
>
> http://www.openwall.com/Owl/
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/openwall/Owl/current/iso/
>
> And you may consider the templates from:
>
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/openwall/Owl/current/vztemplate/
>
> (or any other pre-created OpenVZ container templates).
>
> Alexander
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