[Users] OVZ 7 testing

[Scott Dowdle]

Greetings,

----- Original Message -----
> I could be missing something, but it appears that the only available
> ez-templates for for centos 5,6,7, debian 8, and ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

Yes, that is correct.  I can only imagine that pool will grow over time.

> But debian 7 still seems to be popular, and some applications that
> run on debian 7 haven't been ported to debian 8 yet. One big
> difference is that debian 7 is based on sysv init, like centos 5,
> which debian 8 is based on systemd, like centos 7.

Ubuntu 14.04 uses Upstart so that's why I used it (rather than Debian 8) when doing the hack method I mentioned for getting a Debian 7 container on Virtuozzo 7.

Something related to that... that I've been wanting to investigate but haven't had the time to yet... is the ovztransfer.sh script for OpenVZ Legacy that allows for migrating OpenVZ Legacy containers to a Virtuozzo 7 host.  I would imagine that within that script are the fundamentals of the layout of a Virtuozzo 7 container.  I hope the knowledge gained by studying that script would allow one to use debootstrap to build a EZ OS Template from scratch if one were so inclined.

> I guess the template creation facility one of those things we'll have
> to wait for.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Joe
> 
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> 
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> 
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Scott Dowdle <
> dowdle at montanalinux.org > wrote:
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Has anyone had any success finding or creating a debian 7 OS ez
> > template for OVZ 7?
> 
> You should be able to fake it... by making an Ubuntu 14.04 container
> from an official OS Template, stopping it, mounting it, deleting
> everything from the container's disk, and then extracting an OpenVZ
> Legacy OS Template there. I just tried it and it worked for me. Oh,
> but you asked how to make an ez template for Virtuozzo 7 and that
> doesn't quite do it... but at least you can create a Debian 7
> container and then clone it all you want.
> 
> I'm not sure how to take an existing container and turn in into a
> pre-created OS Template. The process of making an EZ OS Template
> requires the creation of a metadata package. They are in the process
> of simplifying vztt or at least it is on the roadmap I believe.
> 
> TYL,
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