Is there an accepted method for defining a custom OS type or triggering some of the setup work handled by the PVE LXC Setup files? We have a custom private in-house Linux distribution built from source. We are importing an LXD container produced by a periodic build.
Is it possible to add a private custom OS?
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I did attempt that, but the OS detection failed. The only OS type that works is unmanaged. So maybe the question becomes, how can we customize an unmanaged ostype container when created? I've seen a post that this might be possible from the CLI on the server, but we are also hoping to allow all our users to perform all actions from the web GUI. I am striving not to modify one of the Proxmox Perl modules to add our OS type, as that makes it more challenging to upgrade Proxmox later.
you either need to make your custom distro detectable as its closest "cousin" (the check is usually fairly simple, for example looking at os-release/lsb-release or similar metadata files, so should be easy enough to "fake"), or you can only use unmanaged which skips most of the in-container configuration by definition..