Re: [Vserver] Cloning a vserver

From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert_at_13thfloor.at>
Date: Fri 30 Jun 2006 - 04:42:23 BST
Message-ID: <20060630034223.GB18974@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 05:24:18PM +0200, Odile Bénassy wrote:
> Herbert Poetzl a écrit :
>> On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:34:52AM +0200, Christian Knauber wrote:
>>
>>> Yes you can leave it without, but in this case if you defined it in
>>> the "old" vserver you would have to change it in the "new" vserver.
>>>
>>> Also, I do not know if this is really the case, but I felt that
>>> having fixed context IDs is much more stable than having dynamic
>>> ones.
>>
>> more important, dynamic contexts are deprecated for
>> some time now (as they cause nothing but troubles)
>> and will go away in the (near) future ...
>>
>> so please, handle the context assignment in userspace
>> by either assigning them explicitely or extending
>> the tools to handle that properly
>
> how do you set the context ID ?

> 1) from the beginning : my newvserver command (from Debian
> vserver-debiantools) does not have any --cid option

it should probably be an --xid option, and if that
'addon' tool is missing that, please complain to your
debian maintainer about it, because it meanst that in
the near future you will not be able to create proper
guests with it :)

> 2) afterwards : I tried to echo a reasonable 5-figures number into
> /etc/vservers/myvs/context, but now if I try to start it:

number has to be between 2 and 49151 (as long as the
dynamic context ids are still a legacy option, and
occupy the range between 49152 and 65535)

> --%<
>
> # vserver myvs start
> chbind: vc_net_create(): Invalid argument

sounds like you chose 1 or a too-high number, could
that be?

HTH,
Herbert

> An error occured while executing the vserver startup sequence; when
> there are no other messages, it is very likely that the init-script
> (/etc/init.d/rc 3) failed.
>
> Common causes are:
> * /etc/rc.d/rc on Fedora Core 1 and RH9 fails always; the 'apt-rpm' build
> method knows how to deal with this, but on existing installations,
> appending 'true' to this file will help.
>
>> best,
>> Herbert
>
>
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