[Planetlab-devel] Re: planet lab questions

[Barış Metin]

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Thierry Parmentelat
<Thierry.Parmentelat at sophia.inria.fr> wrote:
> - not 100% sure, but this sounds like there are mixes between centos5 and
> f8; in particular centos comes with python-2.4 while f8 comes with
> python-2.5, so this would explain some of the messages
> - as you use vserver your base OS can be anything; our doc refers to centos5
> b/c that's what we're using but that's up to you in fact
> - the vserver should be an f8 one (that's what is recommended at least, and
> what we currently use for public infrastructures); I can't remember what the
> default for vtest-init-vserver is, so you might wish to give an explicit -f
> f8 argument; and/or to check /etc/redhat-release

Running vtest-init-vserver.sh creates a centos5 vserver by default so
"-f f8" option is necessary. Maybe we should make the default value
fedora 8 as that is the recommended one for the moment.

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Barış