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Creating OpenVZ LiveCD based on Centos 4.4

137 bytes added, 10:16, 13 June 2007
General actions: various details added
automatize this process. ;)
Actually you need to know the following general actions: - everything else is only technical details.:
* Get a copy of CentOS 4.4 LiveCD iso image
* Add Use <tt>squashfsunsquashfs</tt> support tool to your kernel (TODO: use unsquashfs instead)* Extract extract the contents of *.mo files from CD using <tt>squashfs</tt> and construct booted LiveCD root filesystem.from extracted files* Compile Create OpenVZ kernels kernel packages with <tt>squashfs</tt> and <tt>unionfs</tt> support* Get OpenVZ user-space toolspackages: vzctl, vzquota, vzpkg, ... and some precreated templates.* Remove some packages from booted LiveCD root filesystem (conflicting with OpenVZ kernel packages and unnecessary packages to free some space)* Install OpenVZ kernelkernels, tools and templates in LiveCD root filesystem* Remove some packages from LiveCD Using <tt>mksquashfs</tt> tool compress booted CD root filesystem
* Modify initrd image: add there kernel modules for OpenVZ kernels
* Introduce some small changes modifications to isolinux configuration file
* Create new iso image
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