[systemd-devel] install a fedora container

[arnaud gaboury]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 7:39 PM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 22.04.15 19:26, arnaud gaboury (arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com) wrote:
>
>> I am little confused how to install Fedora on a container on my Archlinux box.
>>
>> Here is my setup : a whole ssd for Fedora server. Btrfs with 3
>> subvolumes for snapshots:
>> /etc, /var, and /rootvol. No nested subvolumes.
>>
>> This ssd will then be mounted on /var/lib/container/MyContainer.
>>
>> Shall i install first Fedora server on the SSD then mount it in
>> /var/lib/container and boot with systemd-nspawn ? Or is there another
>> solution?
>
> The usualy way how I installed a Fedora container so far, was via "yum
> --installroot". But that of course only works if you have yum around,
> which might be unavailable on ArchLinux.

Yes yum package is available in Arch.
>
> Another option is to use the upstream cloud image. Recent
> systemd-nspawn versions can boot that directly if you stick that in
> /var/lib/machines and uncompress it. The image is here:
>
> http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/fedora/linux/releases/21/Cloud/Images/x86_64/Fedora-Cloud-Base-20141203-21.x86_64.raw.xz

I wanted to install 22 server beta. Will see if I can find a link.

Thank you for tips.
>
> In systemd git you can use "machinectl pull-raw" directly on this URL
> which will do this all automatically for you.
>
> Lennart
>
> --
> Lennart Poettering, Red Hat



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