<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Gregor at HostGIS <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gregor@hostgis.com">gregor@hostgis.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Do I always need a distro to run OpenVZ ? In my case, I don't use a<br>
distro but just kernel+initrd+my own application<br>
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Do you mean, can you run your mini-OS as a guest within a OpenVZ container?</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Very probably! If your "not a distro" can boot and run on normal hardware, you should be able to:<br>
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* take a snapshot of the installed system<br>
* prune out the kernel and modules<br>
* tar it up again<br>
* then deploy it as a container template<br>
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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.<br><font color="#888888">
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-- </font><br></blockquote><div><br>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.<br>
<br> One related Q : does OpenVZ support mips and powerpc too? (I know it supports x86).<br><br>--Nirmal<br></div></div>