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Net "beta" OS Templates

Just wanted to mention that Kir created a new directory at the top level of the download site named beta. Inside of it you'll find a directory structure that you can eventually drill down into to find a number of new, beta OS Templates that Kir has built. Here's a list:

centos-4-x86_64.tar.gz, centos-4-x86.tar.gz, centos-5-x86_64.tar.gz, centos-5-x86.tar.gz, debian-3.1-x86.tar.gz, debian-4.0-x86_64.tar.gz, debian-4.0-x86.tar.gz, fedora-7-x86_64.tar.gz, fedora-7-x86.tar.gz, fedora-8-x86_64.tar.gz, fedora-8-x86.tar.gz, fedora-9-x86_64.tar.gz, fedora-9-x86.tar.gz, suse-10.3-x86_64.tar.gz, suse-10.3-x86.tar.gz, ubuntu-7.10-x86_64.tar.gz, ubuntu-7.10-x86.tar.gz, ubuntu-8.04-x86_64.tar.gz, ubuntu-8.04-x86.tar.gz

Sorry SUSE fans, no openSUSE 11 yet. :(

One big difference is that the Fedora and CentOS OS Templates now include yum which will make a number of people happy. No more fumbling around trying to download a bunch of rpm packages an using rpm to install yum.

The CentOS 5 OS Template

Oddly enough an OpenVZ "official" pre-created OS Template for CentOS 5 did not previously exist although there have been a number of builds posted in the "contrib" section. So far, I've tested out the CentOS 5 x86 and x86_64 OS Templates and they are a bit different from the contrib releases. For one thing, udevd is installed and running and the vzdev package puts files in /etc/udev/devices/ rather than /dev. This is good, because on previous CentOS Templates udev was not installed and if it happened to get installed as a dependency for something else, it would prevent future container starts from working... until udev was removed or the starting of udev was commented out from /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. Perhaps including udev will make migrating physical servers to OpenVZ containers a little more easy.

There are a number of updated vz packages installed that include:

vzdummy-kernel-el5, vzdummy-jre-fc6, vzdummy-glibc, vzdummy-apache, vzdev

The CentOS 5 OS Template is quite light-weight resource wise as a container made from initially only takes up about 14MB of RAM. The vzdummy-apache package helps there because it offers a modification to the stock Apache configuration (/etc/httpd/conf.d/swtune.conf) that changes the StartServers value to 1.

Community, please test these out and report any bugs you find!

Comments

(Anonymous)
Sep. 29th, 2008 07:11 pm (UTC)
minimal
While I think it is great that we get some updated templates. We have really come to appreciated the size of the centos-5-minimal template. It is pretty presumptuous to assume that each install needs apache and a wealth of other components. I vote for providing at stripped down version of each dist/version then it is easy for us to build custom ones from there.

Also if we could get metadata for these packages it would be very handy to test these out.

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