On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 11:59:03AM +0100, Carwyn Edwards wrote: > I'm confused! What use cases is the new febootstrap primarily intended > for? I'm mainly trying to figure out if I'm trying to put a square peg > into a round hole. > > What I'm looking into is using linux containers (LXC) either using > libvirt or lxc-tools) to create jails for a web hosting type > environment. I can see that in the long run btrfs has some nice > features to help with this too. > > Is febootstrap really intended for this kind of use case?
No. I strongly suggest using yum with the --installroot option. febootstrap is intended for building supermin appliances, see: http://libguestfs.org/febootstrap.8.html#supermin_appliances Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
