OpenSuSE LXC container inside Ubuntu
Because I didn't get iFolder to run on Ubuntu directly, I installed an OpenSuSE LXC container and installed iFolder in that one.
This howto describes how to install OpenSuSE 11.3 inside an LXC container on an Ubuntu Natty Server. At the time of writing, OpenSuSE 11.4 is available, but iFolder isn't stable on it yet.
Basic *nix knowledge is assumed, I'm not going to tell you how to open vi (or whatever editor you prefer).
Install LXC
If LXC is not installed and configured yet, please see my previous tutorial. Just don't create the natty container then ;-)
Add OpenSuSE template to Ubuntu.
I've created a template script for this: lxc-opensuse_11.3 or lxc-opensuse_11.4
Download it and place it in /usr/lib/lxc/templates/lxc-opensuse_11.3
FYI, what this template script will do:
- Download a precreated OpenVZ template of OpenSuSE 11.3 from http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/template/precreated
- Extract the template in the Ubuntu LXC cache directory (
/var/cache/lxc/) - Configure the LXC settings
Install container
Now that we have an OpenSuSE container template, installing the OpenSuSE container itself is as easy as installing any other container.
Create a configuration file for your container (e.g. suse.conf), with the following content:
lxc.network.type = veth lxc.network.flags = up lxc.network.link = br-lxc lxc.network.ipv4 = 192.168.254.3/24
This assumes your bridge container is named br-lxc (which is what I use in my LXC tutorial).
And create the container:
lxc-create -n <container-name> -t opensuse_11.3 -f suse.conf
Run the container
screen -dmS init-<container-name> lxc-start -n <container-name>
You can ssh or connect to the screen. The default password for root is root.
Add software repositories
This SuSE container will not have any software repositories set. You can easily add them through YaST.
Run yast, and go to Software -> Software Repositories. You can see a list of available software repositories at http://en.opensuse.org/Package_repositories.
I added the following specific URL's:
- http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.3/repo/oss/
- http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.3/repo/non-oss/
- http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.3/
Et voila, ready to go!
One last thing that might be useful when switching from Ubuntu to SuSE:
| Ubuntu | SuSE | |
|---|---|---|
| Install package from repository: | apt-get install <package> | zypper install <package> |
| Install package from file | dpkg -i <file> | rpm -i <file> |
| Remove package | apt-get remove <package> | zypper remove <package> |
| Update package | apt-get install <package> | zypper update -t package <package> |
| Update package list | apt-get update | zypper refresh |
| Update system | apt-get upgrade | zypper update |
| Search package name | apt-cache search <package> | zypper search <package> |
| Search package pattern | apt-cache search <package> | zypper search -t pattern <pattern> |
| Search file name | apt-cache search <file> | zypper wp <file> |
| List installed packages | dpkg -l | zypper search -is |
| List repositories | cat /etc/apt/sources.list | zypper repos |
| Add repository | add-apt-repository ppa:<repository> | zypper addrepo <repository> |
| Remove repository | edit /etc/apt/sources.list and update package list | zypper removerepo <repository> |
And SuSE comes with the configuration tool called YaST (yast), wich has an ncurses user interface.
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