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From: Herbert Poetzl (herbert_at_13thfloor.at)
Date: Tue 18 Nov 2003 - 18:43:15 GMT


On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:48:25AM +1030, Geoffrey D. Bennett wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Just wanted to report some success running Fedora Core 1 in a vserver
> (Red Hat 7.3 base) as well as share a problem I had and a script I
> wrote to make future FC1 vserver installs trivial (for me, at least).
>
> First the problem: the glibc that comes with FC1 didn't like running
> some programs (like RPM :( ) -- it failed with "cannot enable
> executable stack as shared object requires". I fixed the problem by
> rebuilding the glibc RPM with the glibc-execstack-disable patch (comes
> with the glibc RPM).

we are currently discussing the FC1(+) and RH*
future for vserver on irc.oftc.net #vserver, maybe
you and others interested could join?

best,
Herbert

> The script to install an FC1 vserver essentially does:
> - init rpm database
> - install enough rpms to get yum running
> - get yum to install everything else
> - other minor setup tasks (disable services, set up resolv.conf, etc.)
>
> I haven't tested the resulting installed-vserver too much, but the few
> things I tried worked fine, and anything missing can easily be
> installed with yum.
>
> See http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/vserver/ for the script and
> more discussion. Comments are welcome!
>
> Have fun,
> --
> Geoffrey D. Bennett, RHCE, RHCX geoffrey_at_netcraft.com.au
> Senior Systems Engineer http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/
> NetCraft Australia Pty Ltd http://www.netcraft.com.au/linux/
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