On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 23:15 -0600, Nick M. Daly wrote: > Rob van der Hoeven writes: > > > On Thu, 2013-02-07 at 23:23 +0000, Wookey wrote: > >> OK, the release team response was to raise this to 'important' and ask > >> for a patch and an upload to testing-proposed-updates: > >> > > > > Great news, lets fix this! > > > > [...] I'm not familiar with the patching process so i can not do > > this. I will be happy to help with the testing part if needed. > > Rob, can you supply the necessary diff, so the bugger works at all in > Wheezy? LXC would be really useful. Somebody else might be able to > package, etc. > > Rob and Wookey, thanks for your work on this. > > Nick
Here is my solution: First let me explain the problem. LXC uses shell scripts (they call them templates) to create the rootfs of a container, this is where things go wrong. The current Wheezy templates for creating a Debian rootfs use live-debconfig and this package will not be included in Wheezy. Although the scripts run, the generated rootfs is not configured correctly. Fortunately there is nothing wrong with LXC. Simply replacing the shell script with a version that does not depend on packages that are not in Wheezy will solve the problem. On my own computers i use a slightly modified version of the Debian template that came with Squeeze. My modifications are: 1) Installing a Squeeze rootfs instead of a Lenny rootfs 2) Replacing the deprecated DHCP package 3) Adding some mknod commands to create tty's in the generated rootfs 4) Support for the armel architecture. 5) For the network configuration the template expects that the host has a bridged network with the name br0 and a DHCP server running. I have updated this template to install a Wheezy rootfs and tested the result. It seems to work perfectly. So my solution is: remove the non-functional Debian templates from the LXC package and replace them with my working template. You can download my Debian Wheezy template at: http://freedomboxblog.nl/wp-content/uploads/lxc-debian-wheezy.gz If you want to test the template: Extract the file to /usr/share/lxc/templates , change owner and group to root and make it executable. Create a container with: lxc-create -n wheezy01 -t debian-wheezy Start it: lxc-start -n wheezy01 The generated rootfs reports the container name to the DHCP server. If you happen to to run a combined DHCP/DNS server like dnsmasq this can be used to automatically create a domain-name for the container. (My own setup would create the DNS name wheezy01.freedom.box for the container. Handy for ssh connections...) Rob. http://freedomboxblog.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
