Would you consider adding this as part of the documentation? Or at least as a blog post?
--David On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Francois Gaudreault <fgaudrea...@cloudops.com> wrote: > On 2014-04-02, 1:34 AM, Chinu wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> Please can someone advice how to create an LXC template image in tar >> format to spawn containers in KVM for Cloudstack version 4.2 or 4.3 >> Regards, >> Chinu >> >> >> > I have that. This is for a CentOS image. I apologize for the formatting, I > am using text emails ;) > > On your *HOST* run: > > |mkdir||/var/lib/libvirt/lxc/centos-6-x86_64/etc/yum||.repos.d/ -p | > |cat||/etc/yum||.repos.d||/CentOS-Base||.repo > |||sed||s/||'$releasever'||/6/g||>||/var/lib/libvirt/lxc/centos-6-x86_64/etc/yum||.repos.d||/CentOS-Base||.repo| > |yum groupinstall core > --installroot=||/var/lib/libvirt/lxc/centos-6-x86_64/||--nogpgcheck -y| > |yum||install||plymouth libselinux-python > --installroot=||/var/lib/libvirt/lxc/centos-6-x86_64/||--nogpgcheck -y| > > On your *CHROOTED* container: > |chroot||/var/lib/libvirt/lxc/centos-6-x86_64/| > |echo||password |||passwd||root --stdin| > |#Fix root login on console| > |echo||"pts/0"||>>||/etc/securetty| > |sed||-i s/||"session required pam_selinux.so close"||/||"#session > required pam_selinux.so close"||/g||/etc/pam||.d||/login| > |sed||-i s/||"session required pam_selinux.so open"||/||"#session > required pam_selinux.so open"||/g||/etc/pam||.d||/login| > |sed||-i s/||"session required pam_loginuid.so"||/||"#session required > pam_loginuid.so"||/g||/etc/pam||.d||/login| > |#Configuring basic networking| > |cat||>||/etc/sysconfig/network||<< EOF| > |NETWORKING=||yes| > |HOSTNAME=lxc1.||test||.centos.org| > |EOF| > |cat||>||/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0||<< EOF| > |DEVICE=eth0| > |BOOTPROTO=dhcp| > |ONBOOT=||yes| > |EOF| > |#Enabling sshd| > |chkconfig sshd on| > |# Fixing root login for sshd| > |sed||-i s/||"session required pam_selinux.so close"||/||"#session > required pam_selinux.so close"||/g||/etc/pam||.d||/sshd| > |sed||-i s/||"session required pam_loginuid.so"||/||"#session required > pam_loginuid.so"||/g||/etc/pam||.d||/sshd| > |sed||-i s/||"session required pam_selinux.so open > env_params"||/||"#session required pam_selinux.so open > env_params"||/g||/etc/pam||.d||/sshd| > || > |cat||>||/etc/fstab||<< END| > |/dev/root| |/ rootfs defaults 0 0| > |none ||/dev/shm| |tmpfs nosuid,nodev 0 0| > |END| > || > |cat||>||/etc/init/lxc-sysinit||.conf << END| > |start on startup| > |env||container| > |pre-start script| > |||if||[||"x$container"||!=||"xlxc"||-a||"x$container"||!=||"xlibvirt"||];||then| > |||stop;| > |||fi| > |||initctl start||tty||TTY=console| > |||rm||-f||/var/lock/subsys/||*| > |||rm||-f||/var/run/||*.pid| > |||telinit 3| > |||exit||0;| > |end script| > |END| > || > |#Exit the chroot| > |exit| > > Tar it: > |cd||/var/lib/libvirt/lxc/centos-6-x86_64| > |tar||cvf centos-6-x86_64_lxc.||tar||. > > Upload to CloudStack and enjoy! > | > > > -- > Francois Gaudreault > Architecte de Solution Cloud | Cloud Solutions Architect > fgaudrea...@cloudops.com > 514-629-6775 > - - - > CloudOps > 420 rue Guy > Montréal QC H3J 1S6 > www.cloudops.com > @CloudOps_ >