What about Slcackware as an LXC in Proxmox 4?

[marc.d]

Hi,

On the Proxmox site, I can see which distributions are supported in Proxmox 4 LXC, with more to come in the future.

However, I do have a couple of Slackware 14.1 containers running on a Proxmox 3.4 home server, which is the reason why I did not migrate to Proxmox 4 yet.

So the question becomes: will Slackware be officially supported in future Proxmox releases?

If the answer is no, could you maybe provide hints on which files/scripts I can modify to make that work?

Regards,

Marc

 

[dietmar]

So the question becomes: will Slackware be officially supported in future Proxmox releases?

What template do you use exactly? Where can I download one for testing?
And how do you configure the network? I found this:

http://www.slackware.com/config/network.php

is that still up to date?

 

[marc.d]

Dietmar,

I created myself the template I used already a few years back, which can be downloaded here: users.skynet.be/bk000174
(It's a bit silly I am not allowed to put links in my post here, bummer)

I also do have a template for Slackware 14.2, but that one is to big to be hosted at the same place :-(

For networking I use bridging mode. I'm not really using the Proxmox provided scripts for adapting the bootup scripts, I tailored the startup scripts by hand once the container was started. I don't exactly remember which changes were made to make networking work, but using the good old Slackware way it must be the inet*.* scripts located in /etc/rc.d/

I would certainly be happy if Slackware could be made running inside LXC in Proxmox.

Marc

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Added 27-NOV-2015:

In the meanwhile i figure i changed rc.inet1.conf (in /etc/rc.d ) so it includes following lines

# Config information for eth0:
IFNAME[0]="eth0"
IPADDR[0]="192.168.1.141"
NETMASK[0]=""
USE_DHCP[0]=""
DHCP_HOSTNAME[0]=""

After rebooting the container, eth0 is alive and kicking, and i can reach my brand new slackware server