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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 are all compiled for 32bits and rely on the hardware node having 32 bit python. 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: | |
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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 | ||
* 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 | ||
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* 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 | * modify /usr/share/vzpkg/functions change get_pythonver to run your custom version of python and not the system version | ||
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| + | Please excuse the roughness of this document, I wanted to capture what I did while it was fresh and I will clean it up. | ||
[[Category: Templates]] | [[Category: Templates]] | ||
[[Category: HOWTO]] | [[Category: HOWTO]] | ||
[[Category: Troubleshooting]] | [[Category: Troubleshooting]] | ||