`<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 8:23 PM, Dan McDonald <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danmcd@omniti.com" target="_blank">danmcd@omniti.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Peter Tribble mentioned this a while back:<br>
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> Neat. I tried it once the official way (using joyent images), then reworked<br>
> it to use images from docker export (which generates simple tarballs).<br>
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> This is the base Alpine docker image:<br>
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> lx0:/# uname -a<br>
> Linux lx0 4.4.15 BrandZ virtual linux x86_64 Linux<br>
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I would like to have the LX brand installer script take an optional "-t <full path to tarball or tgz>" pathname in lieu of "-s <full path to zfs snapshot...>" to populate an LX zone. It appears that at least this can work manually.<br>
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How do I get my hands on a docker tarball? URLs to said tarballs are appreciated.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>For Docker tarballs specifically, you really have to be running Docker.<br><br></div><div>Some projects make filesystem tarballs available. For example Ubuntu<br></div><div>have their cloud images:<br><br><a href="https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/" target="_blank">https://cloud-images.ubuntu.<wbr>com/</a><br><br></div><div>Looking around for the root tarballs should give you something useful.<br></div><div>(The cloud images are what are used to create the Ubuntu Docker images,<br></div><div>so you get the unmodified version which might actually be more useful.)<br><br></div><div>Or some images here might be useful.<br><br><a href="http://download.proxmox.com/images/system/" target="_blank">http://download.proxmox.com/<wbr>images/system/</a><br><br></div><div>I've used the alpine image from there successfully.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I tried the Fedora image from here<br><br><a href="https://getfedora.org/en/cloud/download/docker.html">https://getfedora.org/en/cloud/download/docker.html</a><br><br></div><div>and had LX fail:<br><br>zone 'lx3': ERROR: Unsupported distribution!<br><br></div></div>-- <br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">-Peter Tribble<br><a href="http://www.petertribble.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.petertribble.co.uk/</a> - <a href="http://ptribble.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://ptribble.blogspot.com/</a></div>
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