Comments on p@rdus: Gentoo on a 1&1 vServer

Edit /etc/conf.d/net: config_venet0=( "YOUR I...

2011-12-17T12:45:36.602+01:00

Edit /etc/conf.d/net:
config_venet0=( "YOUR IP netmask 255.255.255.255" )
routes_venet0=( "191.255.255.1/32" "default via 191.255.255.1" )

and don't forget:
ln -s /etc/init.d/net.lo /etc/init.d/net.venet0
rc-update add net.venet0
rc-update add sshd
cp -R /etc/network /repair/etc/

After that you can start without repair mode and without merging iproute2 so you can avoid out of memory errors.

This guide seems to be outdated since profile is selected via eselect and openrc and baselayout2 are stable now (distributed with the stage archive).

Besides I used http://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/releases/amd64/current-stage3/stage3-amd64-20111208.tar.bz2 and no vserver stage which seemed to be outdated, as well.

I managed to do this with a Host Europe virtual se...

2011-03-16T04:03:27.614+01:00

I managed to do this with a Host Europe virtual server. Like in the comment above, I had to copy over the /etc/network directory, otherwise the system refused to boot.

It might be worth noting that chrooting to the Gentoo directory and emerging stuff often failed on the rescue system, sometimes it told me that it “Could not allocate memory”, sometimes portage failed with not finding some Python classes without any reasonable explanation for that. In both cases it helped to reboot the rescue system or to just try again at a different time of day, as the rescue system at Host Europe does not seem to run on the same machine as the virtual server usually does (it seems to be a much faster machine but you probably share the memory with more people).

I've used this guide for two Hosting Europe se...

2009-10-09T22:07:09.656+02:00

I've used this guide for two Hosting Europe servers. With VPS 3.0 SuSE, everything worked fine. With VPS 4.0 Ubuntu, you also had to copy over the /etc/network directory and its content from the rescue/repair system to Gentoo.

BTW: Don't get confused when the repair systems routing table and network config looks bit confusing (like 127.0.0.1 on loopback and as a second IP for venet0). Just do it as described above.

And don't forget to edit your fstab ;)

2009-03-07T09:53:00.000+01:00

And don't forget to edit your fstab ;)

You should do:
mount -o bind /dev/pts/ dev/pts/...

2009-03-05T23:18:00.000+01:00

You should do:
mount -o bind /dev/pts/ dev/pts/
If you get PTS errors

See http://linux-vserver.org/VServer_Hosting and s...

2008-07-30T15:43:00.000+02:00

See http://linux-vserver.org/VServer_Hosting and search for 'gentoo', there are some hosting provider which offer gentoo vservers out of the box.

@alex: I am using a buildhost structure with the v...

2008-05-28T08:45:00.000+02:00

@alex: I am using a buildhost structure with the vServers. Otherwise I'd get the same memory problems on the smaller hosts.

That way I avoid problems with swap and I believe you don't get swap with the vServers from 1&1. But since I rely on my buildhost I was never really pressured into asking them. Maybe it is possible to activate swap somehow.

@anonmyous: The krombie.net link is definitely interesting. I always enjoy it to see Gentoo being used in a commercial environment.

But you must admit that they are extremely expensive. At these rates it quickly becomes worthwhile to convert a cheap vServer to Gentoo yourself.

OR you could just move to a provider that offers <...

2008-05-28T00:01:00.000+02:00

OR you could just move to a provider that offers Gentoo Virtual Private Servers.

also thanks from me...

i was always looking...

2008-05-26T17:47:00.000+02:00

also thanks from me...

i was always looking for something like that!!!

unfortunatelly, for me it doesn't seem to work, because i always get an error telling me i cannot allocate enough memory, which is true. i just wonder why it doesn't seem to use the swap. in your tutorial i haven't found anything concerning swap. do i miss something?

cheers!

alex

Thanks for this nice howto, worked w/o problems fo...

2008-05-10T11:32:00.000+02:00

Thanks for this nice howto, worked w/o problems for me.

While digging through the 1&1 customer mirror I found a gentoo distfile and gentoo-portage rsync mirror! :)

http://update.onlinehome-server.info/distribution/gentoo/gentoo

rsync://update.onlinehome-server.info/gentoo-portage

The hosts seem only to be reachable from 1&1 ranges ..

Comments on p@rdus: Gentoo on a 1&1 vServer

Edit /etc/conf.d/net: config_venet0=( "YOUR I...

I managed to do this with a Host Europe virtual se...

I've used this guide for two Hosting Europe se...

And don't forget to edit your fstab ;)

You should do:mount -o bind /dev/pts/ dev/pts/...

See http://linux-vserver.org/VServer_Hosting and s...

@alex: I am using a buildhost structure with the v...

OR you could just move to a provider that offers <...

also thanks from me...i was always looking...

Thanks for this nice howto, worked w/o problems fo...

You should do:
mount -o bind /dev/pts/ dev/pts/...

also thanks from me...

i was always looking...