I have a preliminary version of the new vzpkg utilities ready for testing.
These new tools support creating templates for 32 and 64 bit flavours of
the following:
Centos 4 and 5,
Fedora 7, 8 and 9,
Debian Sarge and Etch,
Ubuntu Feisty, Gutsy and Hardy.
They are extensible and will eventually support OpenSUSE and Gentoo.
In addition, I've created pkg-cacher, a transparent caching proxy daemon
optimized for Debian and RPM packages. It is based on apt-cacher
version 1.6.4 available with Debian. This version has been modified to
understand RedHat RPM repositiories. It also adds support for the HTTP
Range header and deals correctly with files which have the same name but
different content on different distributions or in some cases different
versions of the same distribution.
The pkg-cacher source is available on
http://gforge.opensource-sw.net/projects/pkg_cacher.
The source for the new vzpkg and templates is available on
git.opensource-sw.net. You can browse the source using the url
http://git.opensource-sw.net/. In order to clone the updated source use
the command "git clone http://git.opensource-sw.net/git/vzpkg";. The
templates are available using "git clone
http://git.opensource-sw.net/git/vztmpl";.
In order to make installation easy I've setup repositories for 32 and 64
bit versions of CentOS 4, 5 and Fedora 7, 8 and 9. I'll be producing
packages for Debian and Ubuntu as HN later.
Please let me know of any issues or suggestions.
Step by step installation instructions are below:
Existing install)
Backup your existing /vz/template directory
Uninstall vzpkg and any vztmpl-* packages.
New install)
wget http://download.openvz.org/openvz.repo -P /etc/yum.repos.d
Enable appropriate OpenVZ kernel
yum install vzctl
service vz start
echo -n 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
For CentOS:
wget http://repo.opensource-sw.net/ossw_centos.repo -P /etc/yum.repos.d
For Fedora:
wget http://repo.opensource-sw.net/ossw_fedora.repo -P /etc/yum.repos.d
yum install vzpkg2 vztmpl2-centos vztmpl2-fedora vztmpl2-debian
vztmpl2-ubuntu
yum install pkg-cacher
Add the following to /etc/vz/vz.conf
#
# Replace hostname with the IP address or name of the server running
pkg-cacher.
# Don't use localhost, it must be a name resolvable from within the
container.
VZPKG_CACHE_HOST=hostname:3142
#
# Network information for updating templates for Debian, Ubuntu
# and other distributions that need network access.
#
# Adjust these to suit your network.
#
# Temporary static IP address used by the container while updating the
# cached template.
VZPKG_IPADDR=192.168.1.100
#
# Default domain suffix to append to host names that aren't fully qualified.
VZPKG_SEARCH=example.com
#
# List of DNS servers
VZPKG_DNS=192.168.1.2,192.168.1.3
#
cd /etc/vz/dists
cp fedora-8.conf fedora-9.conf
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