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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>We just published our Debian/Ubuntu appliance
builder for OpenVZ (of course perfectly usable on Proxmox VE).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Short
description:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Creating
high quality appliances is a difficult task and requires deep knowledge of the
underlying operating system. So we created the 'Debian Appliance Builder' to
simplify that task. 'dab' is a script to automate the creation of OpenVZ
appliances. It is basically a rewrite of debootstrap in perl, but uses OpenVZ
instead of chroot and generates OpenVZ templates. Another difference is that it
supports multi-stage building of templates. That way you can execute arbitrary
scripts between package installation steps to accomplish what you want. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Furthermore,
some common tasks are fully automated - like setting up a database server
(mysql or postgres). To accomplish minimal template creation time, packages are
cached to a local directory, so you do not need a local Debian/Ubuntu mirror
(although this would speed up the first run). All generated templates includes
an appliance description file. Those can be used to build appliance
repositories. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Virtual appliances are a well known and
quite successful way to demonstrate and run server software. But till now, no high
quality appliance builder for OpenVZ was available.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Anybody is talking about the economic and
financial crisis – a good chance to bring powerful open source software
to the enterprise customer – start now using OpenVZ for virtual
appliances!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>All details: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Debian_Appliance_Builder<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Martin Maurer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><a href="mailto:martin@proxmox.com"><span
style='color:blue'>martin@proxmox.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><a href="http://www.proxmox.com"><span
style='color:blue'>http://www.proxmox.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>____________________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Kohlgasse 51/10, 1050 Vienna, Austria<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Phone: +43 1 545 4497 11 Fax: +43 1 545
4497 22<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Commercial register no.: FN 258879 f<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Registration office: Handelsgericht Wien<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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