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. :-) -- Shuveb Hussain. I blog at http://binarykarma.org Spread the Karma.