Judson, Those instructions were just a workaround for a problem which appeared when we updated the book from SLES 9 to SLES 10. Novell support was not even willing to admit there was a change in chroot behaviour, not to solve it. So I investigated what had to be done and those were the steps I came with. There might be again another change in SLES 11. I agree with Mike, look at updated cookbook, this time as a redbook. It does not use chroot and I like that approach more. As Mike says, there are tradeoffs, but I think it is much cleaner without chroot.
=================== Marian Gasparovic =================== "The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind." --- On Fri, 10/30/09, Michael MacIsaac <mike...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > From: Michael MacIsaac <mike...@us.ibm.com> > Subject: Re: Using Virtualization Cookbook - SLES10 for SLES11 > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Date: Friday, October 30, 2009, 1:48 PM > Judson, > > It seems you are starting with the SLES 10 Virtualization > Cookbook on > linuxvm.org. We did update that for SLES 10 SP2, in the > form of a redbook. > (see http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247493.html). > That book > changed the methodology of making the golden image a mount > point of the > controller (cloner) and had it in a separate virtual > machine. There are > tradeoffs to both approaches, but one plus to the new > approach is that you > never have to chroot into the golden image. Just something > to think about. > > > Any thoughts? > Chroot'ing - a colleague pointed out to me that the more > file systems you > have mounted over the target environment, the better the > chances of things > behaving as you might expect in the chroot'ed environment. > So, if the > target environment that you plan to chroot into is > /mnt/tgt/, you can > mount the /dev/, /sys/ and /proc/ file systems as such: > # mount --bind /dev /mnt/tgt/dev > # mount -t proc none /mnt/tgt/proc > # mount --bind /sys /mnt/tgt/sys > > So you might try that first. Hope it helps. > > "Mike MacIsaac" <mike...@us.ibm.com> (845) > 433-7061 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access > instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu > with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
