On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:02:43PM -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> I don't remember seeing any mention, on the web site or in a message
> thread, of creating a guest from a _non-typical_ distribution.
the worst case scenario is installing that distro in
a virtual machine (e.g. kvm) and then copying over
the resulting installation to a sekelton guest
you might then want to clean up stuff like hardware
related initialization and filesystem mounting
> While researching why I can't get XML::Parser to install in a CentOS 5
> guest with a '/usr/local/' Perl 5.10.1 install (eg. using the tarball) I
> found Paldo and it looks to be a good idea for the type of LV guests I
> create and use.
> Is this possible? If so what terms should I be using to search?
definitely, see above and the util-vserver - build --help
for building skeleton guests
best,
Herbert
> TIA,
> Rod
> --
Received on Mon May 17 15:18:00 2010