I have been running Gentoo inside a vserver for a long time (at least one year) and it has been working fine. I had to change it a bit to get it to boot right as many things do not need to be done in a vserver because they have already been taken care of by the root server. Whenever I have needed a new vserver with Gentoo I have just cloned one so I didn't have to adapt it to run inside a vserver again. However recently I did a clean build of gentoo inside a vserver and it took significantly more work to get it to work correctly, for example one thing I had to change was /sbin/rc. Now I know there are other people who run Gentoo inside vserver so I thing it would be nice if Gentoo supported this. Has anyone done some work on this? Othervise as I see it there are 2 things that need to be change for this to work. - The default package list can be reduced as many packages does not really make sense to have within a vserver. - baselayout has to be changed or a vserver profile has to use an alternative baselayout. I guess one solution would be to simply create a vserver profile, but as vserver run on many architectures that would mean creating many profiles. Probably to much work for a relatively little change. As I see it one way would be if you could somehow mask out some of the * in /etc/make.profile/packages and perhaps ad one for an other vserver-baselayout. What is needed in a vserver is an extended subset of a default profile and doing copy - modify will require more maintenance so that is probably not a good solution. The same goes for baselayout. Some is needed, a large part is not and a small part would need to be changed. Any suggestions as to how this would best fit within Gentoo and is it something Gentoo wants to support?
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