Lubomir, On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 1:07 PM, Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2018-03-23 at 10:42 +0100, Cedric Bosdonnat wrote: >> Hello Lubomir, >> >> This whole feature looks very similar to what Radostin and I worked >> on last year: >> >> https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-bootstrap >> >> You should really have a look at that tool: it allows you to create a >> libvirt-lxc >> container out of a docker image, a tarball, or a virt-builder >> template. The good >> thing is that virt-manager also uses it for setting up a local OS >> container. > > Sorry for the late reply, I somehow missed your message. > > Thanks for pointing me to this. Sadly the tool doesn't seem to be > available for my distro (yet?). I've opened https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1579045 If you're a Fedora maintainer, please, feel free to take over the review and give us some help in order to have the tool on Fedora. > > I definitely intend to check it out. > > Lubo > >> >> -- >> Cedric >> >> On Fri, 2018-03-23 at 10:16 +0100, Lubomir Rintel wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I do often use the libvirt_lxc containers with userns, and for >> > years >> > I've used hacky-ish shell scripts to create them, unable to figure >> > out a >> > sensible way to set them up. Perhaps virt-install is the right tool >> > to >> > do the job? >> > >> > Chained up to this message is a patchset that adds the >> > functionality to >> > virt-install. It is known to have some rough edges (the root >> > password is >> > unset, does the wrong thing if there are multiple <filesystem>s in >> > the VM, >> > remote installs are untested), but essentially is able to >> > initialize Debian >> > and Fedora containers: >> > >> > virt-install \ >> > --connect lxc:/// \ >> > --name fedora \ >> > --memory 512 \ >> > --idmap >> > uid_start=0,uid_target=1000000,uid_count=65536,gid_start=0,gid_targ >> > et=1000000,gid_count=65536 \ >> > --filesystem /var/lib/libvirt/filesystems/fedora,/ \ >> > --location http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/r >> > eleases/27/Server/x86_64/os >> > >> > virt-install \ >> > --connect lxc:/// \ >> > --name debian \ >> > --memory 512 \ >> > --idmap >> > uid_start=0,uid_target=1000000,uid_count=65536,gid_start=0,gid_targ >> > et=1000000,gid_count=65536 \ >> > --filesystem /var/lib/libvirt/filesystems/debian,/ \ >> > --location http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/ >> > >> > Does this approach look sensible? Does it make sense to address the >> > known issues in this and merge the functionality to virt-manager or >> > should this perhaps belong to a separate tool? >> > >> > The diffstat looks optimistic. >> > >> > virt-install | 9 ++- >> > virtinst/__init__.py | 1 + >> > virtinst/lxcinstaller.py | 175 >> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> > virtinst/urlfetcher.py | 42 +++++++++++- >> > 4 files changed, 223 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Lubo >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > virt-tools-list mailing list >> > virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list >> > > > _______________________________________________ > virt-tools-list mailing list > virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list Best Regards, -- Fabiano Fidêncio _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
