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| − | There isn't much of a reason to run a 64bit container; however, there a memory management benefits to be had from running a 64bit hardware node. The problem is that the OpenVZ tools | + | This article describes an (unofficial) hack to make OpenVZ template tools work on an x86_64 box. |
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| + | There isn't much of a reason to run a 64bit container; however, there a memory management benefits to be had from running a 64bit hardware node. The problem is that the OpenVZ template tools only work on x86. The setx86_64 breaks distributions based on rpm 4.3.x which includes CentOS4/RHEL4. The steps I took to make this work with a RHEL5.1-x86_64 hardware node and the standard 32bit templates are as follows: | ||
* Get and build Python 2.4.5 having exported CFLAGS="-m32" and LD_FLAGS="-m32" into /usr/local/python-2.4.5-32 by using --prefix=/usr/local/python-2.4.5-32 as an argument to configure | * Get and build Python 2.4.5 having exported CFLAGS="-m32" and LD_FLAGS="-m32" into /usr/local/python-2.4.5-32 by using --prefix=/usr/local/python-2.4.5-32 as an argument to configure | ||
* Download ez_setup from http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall and run /usr/local/python-2.4.5-32/bin/python ez_setup.py (this will make some things easier) | * Download ez_setup from http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall and run /usr/local/python-2.4.5-32/bin/python ez_setup.py (this will make some things easier) | ||
| − | * download and install | + | * download and install ElementTree-1.2.6 (easy_install) |
| − | * download and install libxml2-python-2.6.9, you will need to have libxml-devel.i386 and libxslt-devel.i386 already installed | + | * download and install libxml2-python-2.6.9, you will need to have libxml-devel.i386 and libxslt-devel.i386 already installed (ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/python/) |
| − | * download and install urlgrabber-3.1.0 | + | * download and install urlgrabber-3.1.0 (http://linux.duke.edu/projects/urlgrabber/download/) |
* /usr/local/python-2.4.5-32/bin/easy_install pysqlite, make sure you have sqlite-devel installed | * /usr/local/python-2.4.5-32/bin/easy_install pysqlite, make sure you have sqlite-devel installed | ||
* replace /usr/bin/python with /usr/local/python-2.4.5-32/bin/python in /usr/share/vzyum/yum-cli/yummain.py, /usr/share/vzyum/yum-cli/cli.py, /usr/share/vzyum/bin/yum | * replace /usr/bin/python with /usr/local/python-2.4.5-32/bin/python in /usr/share/vzyum/yum-cli/yummain.py, /usr/share/vzyum/yum-cli/cli.py, /usr/share/vzyum/bin/yum | ||
| − | + | * modify /usr/share/vzpkg/functions change get_pythonver to run your custom version of python and not the system version | |
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[[Category: Templates]] | [[Category: Templates]] | ||
[[Category: HOWTO]] | [[Category: HOWTO]] | ||
[[Category: Troubleshooting]] | [[Category: Troubleshooting]] | ||
Latest revision as of 18:32, 19 May 2008
This article describes an (unofficial) hack to make OpenVZ template tools work on an x86_64 box.
There isn't much of a reason to run a 64bit container; however, there a memory management benefits to be had from running a 64bit hardware node. The problem is that the OpenVZ template tools only work on x86. The setx86_64 breaks distributions based on rpm 4.3.x which includes CentOS4/RHEL4. The steps I took to make this work with a RHEL5.1-x86_64 hardware node and the standard 32bit templates are as follows:
- Get and build Python 2.4.5 having exported CFLAGS="-m32" and LD_FLAGS="-m32" into /usr/local/python-2.4.5-32 by using --prefix=/usr/local/python-2.4.5-32 as an argument to configure
- Download ez_setup from http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall and run /usr/local/python-2.4.5-32/bin/python ez_setup.py (this will make some things easier)
- download and install ElementTree-1.2.6 (easy_install)
- download and install libxml2-python-2.6.9, you will need to have libxml-devel.i386 and libxslt-devel.i386 already installed (ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/python/)
- download and install urlgrabber-3.1.0 (http://linux.duke.edu/projects/urlgrabber/download/)
- /usr/local/python-2.4.5-32/bin/easy_install pysqlite, make sure you have sqlite-devel installed
- replace /usr/bin/python with /usr/local/python-2.4.5-32/bin/python in /usr/share/vzyum/yum-cli/yummain.py, /usr/share/vzyum/yum-cli/cli.py, /usr/share/vzyum/bin/yum
- modify /usr/share/vzpkg/functions change get_pythonver to run your custom version of python and not the system version
