Hi
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:45:08AM +0200, Daniel Hermann wrote:
> There is still one problem with the network interface. It seems that
> "vserver ... build" (i.e. "ip addr add") uses netmask 255.255.255.255
> and broadcast 0.0.0.0 by default, and that may have some consequences.
Ok, good to know. I'll check that.
> > > some legacy stuff, so there is still the same code for the other
> > > options, except "--copy-vreboot", "--no-copy-vreboot" and
> > > "--fakeinit". Still TODO is "--fakeinit" and other flags like
> > > "nprocs", but they can probably all be supported by the
> > > vserver-build "--flags" argument. I didn't check the one-to-one
> > > equivalence of the configuration (/etc/vservers/vserver-name.conf on
> > > the one hand and /etc/vservers/vserver-name/* on the other hand).
> >
> > I have never ever used these options myself so I do not think they are very
> > important.
> >
>
> What about allowing additional arguments after a "--" argument and
> handing them over directly to "vserver ... build"?
That may be a good thing, yes.
> > > I'm currently writing some local extensions to "vserver ... build" by
> > > adding a file /etc/vservers/.distributions/sarge/initpost (I need some
> > > files copied from the host to the new vserver; this is not possible
> > > with --post-install-script of newvserver). In principle it should even
> > > be easily possible to put the whole stuff of newvserver into such
> > > initpre/initpost scripts. Then newvserver would just be a very short
> > > wrapper script around "vserver ... build" and both creation methods
> > > ("vserver ... build" and newvserver) would be equivalent. What do you
> > > think?
> >
> > Sounds like a good idea. I have thought about writing newvserver with
> > debootstrap rules but this may be a better option. The shorter newvserver
> > can be the better.
> >
>
> There are some initpre/initpost scripts for RedHat and Fedora vservers
> in the util-vserver package. To include some scripts for Debian would
> also enable people to build Debian vservers on other distros, at least
> if the scripts don't presume a Debian host.
That would be good, yes. Do you know the interface for calling those
scripts?
Regards,
// Ola
> regards
>
> Daniel
>
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