[gentoo-dev] Gentoo inside vserver

[Jesper Fruergaard Andersen]

I have been running Gentoo inside a vserver for a long time (at least one 
year) and it has been working fine. I had to change it a bit to get it to 
boot right as many things do not need to be done in a vserver because they 
have already been taken care of by the root server. Whenever I have needed a 
new vserver with Gentoo I have just cloned one so I didn't have to adapt it 
to run inside a vserver again. However recently I did a clean build of gentoo 
inside a vserver and it took significantly more work to get it to work 
correctly, for example one thing I had to change was /sbin/rc.
Now I  know there are other people who run Gentoo inside vserver so I thing it 
would be nice if Gentoo supported this. Has anyone done some work on this? 
Othervise as I see it there are 2 things that need to be change for this to 
work. 
- The default package list can be reduced as many packages does not really 
make sense to have within a vserver. 
- baselayout has to be changed or a vserver profile has to use an alternative 
baselayout.
I guess one solution would be to simply create a vserver profile, but as 
vserver run on many architectures that would mean creating many profiles. 
Probably to much work for a relatively little change.
As I see it one way would be if you could somehow mask out some of the * in 
/etc/make.profile/packages and perhaps ad one for an other 
vserver-baselayout. What is needed in a vserver is an extended subset of a 
default profile and doing copy - modify will require more maintenance so that 
is probably not a good solution. The same goes for baselayout. Some is 
needed, a large part is not and a small part would need to be changed.
Any suggestions as to how this would best fit within Gentoo and is it 
something Gentoo wants to support?

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Jesper
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