Re: [arch-general] systemd-nspawn : centOS container

On 31-01-2015 08:01, arnaud gaboury wrote:

On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 5:47 AM, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:

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On Friday 30 Jan 2015 7:12:18 PM arnaud gaboury wrote:

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I have happily used a second Arch as a container booted with systemd-nspawn.

I would like now install a CentOS container, but I am not sure how to proceed the install. What is the correct way ? - first install minimal CentOS from an iso in a dedicated partition (in my case it will be a ssd), then mount the ssd filesystem in /var/lib/container/MyCentOS ? - mount the iso file with systemd-nspawn --image=/path/to/CentOS.iso, boot my container and then install CentOS .

I haven't tried it myself but you could use a pre-built image like this

http://images.linuxcontainers.org/images/centos/7/amd64/default/20150131_02:...

Bonus point, it can run an lxc container as well.

Thank you for the link, but i doesn't really answer my question with systemd-nspwan. Btw, I deicded to go Fedora and installed this way:

From reading the man page I suspect you would have to install a minimal image with qemu and then use that with --image, or install a minimal image with qemu, extract the files and use it as you have been using your second arch.

This is something worth looking at, I'm not sure something like centos 4 would work with systemd-nspawn but would be nice to be able to (easily) setup a container with that in case of need (reason: compatibility with some older proprietary program).

# yum -y --releasever=21 --nogpg --installroot=/srv/mycontainer --disablerepo='*' --enablerepo=fedora install systemd passwd yum fedora-release-server vim-minimal

-- Mauro Santos