On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:38:51AM +0530, Shuveb Hussain wrote: > Hi, > > >> > - os: that's probably one place where OpenVZ may be quite different > >> > from > >> > Xen and QEmu, still what does the string > >> > 'slackware-10.2-i386-minimal' > >> > mean ? Is that a pointer to a file ? If yes shouldn't the > >associated > >> > content be in the XML instead > >> > >> OpenVZ supports only Linux. This item must reflect which distro the > >> user wants. Or are there better ideas? > > > > Is that distro a path on the main OS, a config file ? > > > > Not a config file. It is the name of a template cache(just a tar file > containing a root fs). This is uncompressed to create the VM's new > root fs. Usually OpenVZ users will download several template caches, > one for each Linux distro. While creating a VM, the name of the distro > needs to be passed to the creation function. A ".tar.gz" is then > appended to the template name and that file is looked for at a > predesignated location. If it is found, it is untared to create the > new VM's root fs. Else -1. :-)
Okay, then it really cannot be extended at that level any further than a bare string, thanks for the informations :-) Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
