[pve-devel] Create template from CT

[Dietmar Maurer]

> >why not?
> Well where does the proxmox config come from in a vzdump? I assume it has
> to be in there somewhere?

The config is stored in /etc/vzdump/

> Looking further into it, other items need
> removing too which could be added to an excludes list in the tar command.
> 
> > and I suspect that other things may need removing too - such as
> > networks, /tmp, etc. I need some more information on what the exact
> > differences are and we may need to consider the CT OS distribution
> > type. In addition, it lands in the cache dir of the storage device so
> > that no manual intervention is required.
> 
> >Sure. But there is currently no real standard which defines what a
> >template should contain or not. So automatic creation is out of scope unless
> there is a well-defined standard.
> >For now, we use DAB to create templates.
> 
> DAB does not meet my needs - I spend a lot of time installing software which
> is not in a repo and has to be manually installed. 

Installing software that way is a bad idea. I always create debian packages
before installing something.

> So are you saying that
> because there is nothing written down on OpenVZ, Proxmox will not support
> this feature? I basically want to create a template from an existing CT.

IMHO creating a OpenVZ template is always a manual process, because you need to carefully 
remove unwanted files/data/daemons.