Greetings,

I'm trying to run slackware64-15 as an LXC container in a gentoo host. It always fails with:
which makes sense, since i don't have slackpkg installed in gentoo. (I know it'll pull down debootstrap if i install Debian templates.)

So can i just grab slackpkg from the mirrors? I have no container's rootfs yet, so where do i put it?


[In another incarnation i installed slackware as a kvm/qemu vm, loopmounted the file-based .img, copied it to rootfs/ and gave it a go but it's using the host's init (OpenRC) instead of the container's (sysv).]

displays a colon separated list of directories where your system looks for executable programs. Putting slackpkg in one of those directories will allow it to be found when executed by the lxc script... If slackpkg needs something that is located in a different path on gentoo than where it would be on slackware, you might have to create some symbolic links to help slackpkg find the gentoo resource.

I do not think that /usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-slackware is supposed to be used in a Gentoo Linux operating system.

Because it uses the Slackware package tools, slackpkg or installpkg, etc. So, I believe that's supposed to be used in a Slackware host.

Anyway, I will never understand why people refuses to understand that the LXC containers aren't virtual machines and why they insists to run CentOS under Slackware or Slackware under Gentoo, as LXC containers...

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So i tried:with /mnt/slack being the loopmounted .img file from the vm i had previously created. But then i got so i guess there's more to it, like LuckyCyborg implied.

You can create other OS images, especially Debian-based, just fine. It's a bit akward that the slackware template distributed by gentoo was created to run on a slackware host (but i'll look into that).
Trying the same ina Devuan host yields the same result, so it may be packaging related.

I'd explain why i want a different host OS but it's besides the point.

Care to suggest reading material as to how to create a slackware template?

The slackware template itself is good reading material: it is basically just a list of everything that needs to happen.

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well, presuming that you did not chroot into /mnt/slac, your "cat /etc/slackware-version" was looking in gentoo's /etc: root (/) is gentoo host, + etc, takes you to gentoo's /etc. to get to slackware's the way you have it mounted you would have to try To install onto gentoo host, slackware packages, you can use Pat's installpkg script at /sbin/installpkg (on a slackware system, so at /mnt/slac/sbin/installpkg the way you have it setup)... you could download slackpkg from nearby mirror and install it with that installpkg script.

You have to install slackpkg on gentoo since the template is using it.
Or you can manually download your slackware directory tree on the gentoo host, and then modify the slackware-lxc template to use the installpkg script to install the same packages in the template's list of packages...

I have only used lxc to mirror an all slackware bare-metal network stack comprised of a dozen servers, for sandbox and study without having to have separate machines in sandbox for every bare metal machine in the stack... exeperiment in lxc, and then put into bare metal production, but all is slackware, and not mixed os host/client lxc setup, so LuckyCyborg is right in caution, and it might not be stable... But linux is linux, and its amazing, and you'll probably get it going with a few tweaks to gentoo.

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A good news, Slackware container now available from lxc image repository

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But how can one obtain a single file downloadable URL for a template to be used in ProxmoxVE?

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But how can one obtain a single file downloadable URL for a template to be used in ProxmoxVE?

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