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    Install LXC On CentOS

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    This document provides instructions for installing LXC (Linux Containers) and an OpenQuake LXC container on CentOS 6. It involves adding the EPEL repository, installing required packages like LXC and cgroup tools, configuring the network and firewall to allow container traffic, downloading and extracting the OpenQuake container tarball, and starting the container. The summary also notes some considerations for customized CentOS installations and alternatives to the defaults provided.

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    This document provides instructions for installing LXC (Linux Containers) and an OpenQuake LXC container on CentOS 6. It involves adding the EPEL repository, installing required packages like LXC and cgroup tools, configuring the network and firewall to allow container traffic, downloading and extracting the OpenQuake container tarball, and starting the container. The summary also notes some considerations for customized CentOS installations and alternatives to the defaults provided.

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    This document provides instructions for installing LXC (Linux Containers) and an OpenQuake LXC container on CentOS 6. It involves adding the EPEL repository, installing required packages like LXC and cgroup tools, configuring the network and firewall to allow container traffic, downloading and extracting the OpenQuake container tarball, and starting the container. The summary also notes some considerations for customized CentOS installations and alternatives to the defaults provided.

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    Installing LXC on CentOS


    daniviga edited this page on Oct 20 14 revisions

    How-to install LXC and OpenQuake LXC on


    RHEL/CentOS 6
    As root user:

    1) Add the EPEL repo to your RHEL/CentOS 6 server


    $ rpm -ivh http://mirror.nl.leaseweb.net/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

    2) Install LXC 1.0.6 from epel and some other stuff


    needed
    $ yum install lxc lxc-libs lxc-templates bridge-utils libcgroup

    3) Enable the cgroups


    $
    $
    $
    $

    service cgconfig start


    service cgred start
    chkconfig --level 345 cgconfig on
    chkconfig --level 345 cgred on

    4) Setup the network:


    the easiest way is to create an internal network, so you do not need to expose the LXC to
    the bare-metal server network.

    a) Create the bridge


    $ brctl addbr lxcbr0

    b) Make the bridge persistent on reboot


    create /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lxcbr0 and add

    DEVICE="lxcbr0"
    TYPE="Bridge"
    BOOTPROTO="static"
    IPADDR="10.0.3.1"
    NETMASK="255.255.255.0"

    c) Start the bridge interface


    $ ifup lxcbr0

    5) Configure the firewall


    to allow outgoing traffic from the container: edit /etc/sysconfig/iptables and

    a) Comment or remove
    -A FORWARD -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited

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    b) Add at the end of file


    *nat
    :PREROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]
    :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
    :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]
    -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
    COMMIT

    c) Restart the firewall


    $ service iptables restart

    6) Enable IPv4 forwarding


    edit /etc/sysctl.conf and change net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0 to net.ipv4.ip_forward =
    1 , then apply the new parameters with

    $ sysctl p

    7) Download OpenQuake LXC


    $ cd /tmp && wget http://ftp.openquake.org/oq-master/lxc/Ubuntu_lxc_12.04_64_oq_master_nightly-14

    8) Extract the OpenQuake LXC


    $ tar --numeric-owner -C /var/lib/lxc -xpsjf /tmp/Ubuntu_lxc_12.04_64_oq_master_night

    9) Check if the LXC is installed and ready


    with the command lxc-ls you should see

    $ lxc-ls
    openquake-nightly-141020

    10) Setup the OpenQuake LXC ip address


    open /var/lib/lxc/openquake/rootfs/etc/network/interfaces and change iface eth0
    inet dhcp to

    iface eth0 inet static


    address 10.0.3.2
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    gateway 10.0.3.1
    dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8

    11) Start the OpenQuake LXC


    $ lxc-start d n openquake

    12) Login into the running OpenQuake LXC


    $ lxc-console n openquake
    (to detach press ctrl-a + q)

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    You can also login using SSH from the host server:

    $ ssh [email protected]
    User: openquake
    Password: openquake

    Please note:
    This how-to is intended for a fresh, standard installation of RHEL/CentOS 6 (and is
    tested on 6.4). It may need some adjustments for customized installations.
    On 5. the firewall could be already customized by the sysadmin, please be careful
    when edit it. For more details please ask to your network and/or system administrator.
    On 5. section b. -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE "eth0" is the name of the
    host server main interface. It can differ in your configuration (see the used interface
    with ifconfig).
    On 8. the --numeric-owner is mandatory.
    On 10. the 8.8.8.8 DNS is the one provided by Google. Its better to use your
    internal DNS, so change that IP address with the one associated to your DNS server.
    For more details please ask to your network and/or system administrator.
    On certain installations the rsyslogd process inside the container can eat lots of
    CPU cycles. To fix it run, within the container, these commands (not required on
    containers prepared by us):
    service rsyslog stop
    sed -i -e 's/^\$ModLoad imklog/#\$ModLoad imklog/g' /etc/rsyslog.conf
    service rsyslog start

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