[PVE-User] Self-created templates.

[Joe Burleson]

Take a look at this forum thread. The post by thefool808 explains how
the templates should be named.

http://www.proxmox.com/forum/showthread.php?t=452

Good luck

Joe Burleson
Department of Computer Science
Arkansas State University



On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Luis Zarrabeitia <kyrie at uh.cu> wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> Excellent platform, by the way! [I hope some of the developers are on this
> list and they can get my compliments.]
>
> I have a few questions... one at a time. The first: How do I create a
> template?
>
> After a lot of trial and error, I noticed that the openvz templates I had
> working weren't working on proxmox only because the naming convention, but it
> is not immediately clear what the naming convention is (now I know, but
> shouldn't this be in the wiki or something?).
>
> Anyway, my point:
>
> # debootstrap lenny mydir my_debian_mirror
>
> works perfectly. I tar.gz that directory with the right name, and I get a
> working proxmox base template.
>
> But,
>
> # debootstrap intrepid mydir my_ubuntu_mirror
>
> won't work. The machine will "start", but vzctl enter [CTID] replies "can't
> open pty". Do you have any idea why? I'd like to have an idea of what is
> going on before deploying it, even if I end up using the pre-made ubuntu base
> image.
>
> --
> Luis Zarrabeitia (aka Kyrie)
> Fac. de Matemática y Computación, UH.
> http://profesores.matcom.uh.cu/~kyrie
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