On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:38:51AM +0530, Shuveb Hussain wrote:
Hi,
- os: that's probably one place where OpenVZ may be quite different from Xen and QEmu, still what does the string 'slackware-10.2-i386-minimal' mean ? Is that a pointer to a file ? If yes shouldn't the associated content be in the XML instead
OpenVZ supports only Linux. This item must reflect which distro the user wants. Or are there better ideas?
Is that distro a path on the main OS, a config file ?
Not a config file. It is the name of a template cache(just a tar file containing a root fs). This is uncompressed to create the VM's new root fs. Usually OpenVZ users will download several template caches, one for each Linux distro. While creating a VM, the name of the distro needs to be passed to the creation function. A ".tar.gz" is then appended to the template name and that file is looked for at a predesignated location. If it is found, it is untared to create the new VM's root fs. Else -1. :-)
Okay, then it really cannot be extended at that level any further than a bare string, thanks for the informations :-) Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ veillard@redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/