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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)
Oct. 8th, 2008 01:59 pm (UTC)
Same question
I have the same question as the two above... any chance you'll put the metadata available to download? Or, at least, cand you tell us how we can find the "swsoft" rpms which are included in centos 5 beta template? I googled for them and didn't found anything downloadable. Thank you!

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