GentooGuestHowto (2004.11.02 11:00:06)

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Automatic Conversion

Use these commands to convert a guest image using default baselayout:

# CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/init.d /etc/inittab" emerge sys-apps/baselayout-vserver
# emerge -C baselayout
# cd /etc && rm make.profile
# ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/${arch}/vserver make.profile

Manual Style

Note: Information below is really out of date, please see above or the [Gentoo VPS project] for more information

This is how I got Gentoo to work as a guest.

I used util-vserver-0.26 for this, versions before that and/or the other vserver tools may not have the bits for basic Gentoo support.

Make the following changes BEFORE running "vserver blah start" for the first time.

• edit /sbin/rc and insert a line at the top to call "/sbin/depscan.sh"
• edit the following files in /etc/init.d and add "exit 0" to the top:
  • checkfs
  • checkroot
  • clock
  • consolefont
  • domainname
  • hostname
  • keymaps
  • localmount
  • modules
  • net.eth0
  • net.lo
  • netmount
  • serial
  • urandom
• Make the following changes to /etc/init.d/halt.sh :
  • comment out the section starting with "umount -at tmpfs &> /dev/null" and going through the "deactivating swap" block below
  • comment out the section starting with "ebegin "Unmounting filesystems"" and ending with "eend 0"
  • comment out the section starting with "ebegin "Remounting remaining filesystems readonly"" and ending with "else .. eend 0 .. fi"

Then you should be able to start/stop the vserver without too much garbage.

comments to jeffrey+vserver AT firehead DOT org

In very old versions of the vserver utilities you will also need to edit /usr/sbin/vserver in the parent machine because Gentoo uses /sbin/rc instead of redhat's /etc/rc.d/rc

• Replace STARTCMD="/etc/rc.d/rc $INITDEFAULT with STARTCMD=`cat $VSERVERDIR/etc/inittab | grep l$INITDEFAULT | cut -d : -f 4` before the if-then block
• Replace STOPCMD="/etc/rc.d/rc 6" with STOPCMD=`cat $VSERVERDIR/etc/inittab | grep l6 | cut -d : -f 4` before the if-then block