[Users] Create Ubuntu Environment

[jjs - mainphrame]

I'm one of those bitter clingers who continues to use all the old vz
commands. Since I only use containers and no vms it's worked well enough. I
find vzpkg still does the right thing when I tell it to create a cache for
an OS ez template.

J

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 11:27 PM, Scott Dowdle <dowdle at montanalinux.org>
wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Running 7 Beta 3 and can’t for the life of me figure out how to
> > create a instance based on Ubuntu 14.10 x64. I ran yum install
> > ubuntu-14.10-x86_64-ez.noarch which completed but can’t create with
> > the prlctl command. How would I add templates / create?
>
> prlctl create {ctid} --vmtype ct --ostemplate ubuntu-14.04-x86_64
>
> The first time you create a container from an EZ template you haven't used
> before, it'll build it by downloading all of the packages, extracting them
> to a build directory, and then compressing that into a disk image... and
> that is added to the OS Template cache... from which it creates your new
> container from.  Subsquent container creations will see it the ready-to-use
> OS Template in the cache dir... although you can refresh the OS Template
> wheneve desired as new updates appear.
>
> OpenVZ operated the same way in the first couple of years... but vzpkg
> bitrotted with changes in Python and got discontinued.
>
> After the container is created then you can prlctl set whatever config
> parameters you need.
>
> TYL,
> --
> Scott Dowdle
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