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On 02/06/2015 03:12 PM, Darragh O'Reilly wrote:
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> not sure if this is the best way ...
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> # create a backing file
> truncate --size 2GB precise-backing-file
> losetup -f precise-backing-file
> losetup -a
> # find what /dev/loopX was used - eg /dev/loop1
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> mkfs /dev/loop1
> mkdir mnt
> mount /dev/loop1 mnt
> cd mnt
> # root tar from https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/
> tar -xvf /vagrant/precise-server-cloudimg-amd64-root.tar.gz
> cd ../
> umount /dev/loop1
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> glance image-create --name my-lxc-test --is-public True --disk-format raw --container-format bare --progress --file /tmp/precise-backing-file

Thanks!


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> Dmitry Guryanov dguryanov at parallels.com
> Thu Feb 5 14:00:01 UTC 2015
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> Hello,
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> Where do people obtain glance images for nova/lxc? Cloud images for KVM
> can't run in LXC container because first, image should be slightly
> modified (because it doesn't have its own kernel) and also it should be
> single FS, not an image with partition table.
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> The only way which I found to start sort of a container is to download
> an image from OpenVZ size, covert it to raw format without partition
> table. At least it runs init and some processes, but it doesn't work
> completely...
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