[Users] LiveCD OpenVZ

[Nirmal Guhan]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Solar Designer <solar at openwall.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:31:57AM -0700, Nirmal Guhan wrote:
>> # 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)
>
> I've just invoked the above command on an Owl-current system, and I got:
>
> host!root:/vz/template/cache# vzctl create 501 --ostemplate owl-current-20100323-i686
> Creating container private area (owl-current-20100323-i686)
> Performing postcreate actions
> Container private area was created
>
> As you can see, I did not get the "Unable to get full ostemplate name
> for owl-current-20100323-i686" message.  So the system you're doing this
> on is somehow different - you did not mention what system that is.
>
> Here is some relevant info on the Owl-current system:
>
> host!root:~# rpm -q vzctl
> vzctl-3.0.23-owl5
> host!root:~# ls -l /etc/vz/dists/owl.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1064 2010-01-25 20:21 /etc/vz/dists/owl.conf

I have

# rpm -q vzctl
vzctl-3.0.23-1.i386
# ls -l /etc/vz/dists/owl.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1064 2008-10-30 06:26 /etc/vz/dists/owl.conf
owl.conf seems outdated but not sure if contents are different. Could
you please share yours ?

>
> ...and it was an x86_64 system (kernel, host userland), so normally I
> would use an x86_64 container template as well, but as you can see an
> i686 template works on it too. :-)
>
> Can you please just try on Owl-current as the host system (CD-booted or
> installed - your choice)?

Hmm.. I run Fedora 12.

>
> Alexander
>