Jlehtira: Linux-VServer info for Slackware. For now, the gotchas I ran into !

Jlehtira — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 22:44:17 GMT

Linux-VServer info for Slackware. For now, the gotchas I ran into !

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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux-vserver Linux-VServer] is a virtual private server implementation that was created by adding operating system-level virtualization capabilities to the Linux kernel.

=== Setting up a Linux-VServer host on Slackware ===

Linux-Vserver requires a patched kernel and specific utilities. Installation is outlined [http://linux-vserver.org/Installation_on_Linux_2.6 here]. The required steps for installing on Slackware are:

* Download a vanilla kernel source and a matching vserver patch [http://linux-vserver.org/Downloads#Kernel_Patches here]
* Unpack the kernel sources and apply the VServer patch. Copy .config file from Slackware's own kernel sources, just in case. Then use "make menuconfig" and check the [http://linux-vserver.org/Installation_on_Linux_2.6#Configuring_the_Kernel Linux VServer] settings, making sure to enable it.
* make && make modules_install && make install for easy kernel installation.
* Download and compile dietlibc. It is required, and Linux_Vserver will fail silently without it. It is available in [http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/libraries/dietlibc/?search=dietlibc Slackbuilds.org] and easiest to install from there. The slackbuild puts it in /opt/diet .
* Download, compile and install [https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/util-vserver/ util-vserver]. You should do "DIET=/opt/diet/bin/diet ./configure", otherwise the dietlibc isn't found.

=== Setting up a Slackware guest OS ===

Check up [http://notes.sagredo.eu/node/7 Roberto Puzzanghera's blog] for installation scripts.

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