Tools for converting an OpenVZ template into a working CentOS 6 lxc container

• Download centos-6-x86_64.tar.gz from http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/template/precreated
• Extract it with tar xzps
• Chroot into the container and change the root password
  chroot /path/to/the/container
passwd root
• Apply etc_lxc_comp.patch patch to the rootfs (or edit by hand using files in /etc dir of this repo as templates)
• Create /dev/tty0 and /dev/tty1
  mknod -m 666 /path/to/the/container/dev/tty0 c 4 0; mknod -m 666 /path/to/the/container/dev/tty1 c 4 1
• Use provided config and fstab as model. Change MAC address and other parameters as you wish
• Now the container is ready for lxc.
  Start with lxc-start -n name -d and access it with lxc-console -n name

• An automatic script to be used as lxc "template" (i.e. lxc-create -t template) is coming soon
• Testing on other platforms (more host distros and/or i686 arch)

• Work is in progress
• This how-to is intended to be used with lxc userland tools (http://lxc.sourceforge.net/) only and is not tested/ready (yet) for libvirt-lxc plugin
• Running lxc out of SELinux or AppArmor context is not yet 100% safe! Be careful!
• Tested with CentOS 6.3 64bit on Fedora 17 64bit host with lxc rpms from official Fedora repo (version 0.7.5)