/starwarsfan__edomi-lxc

Proxmox- / LXC-Template with installed Edomi

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Edomi-LXC

This is an LXC template containing Edomi, a PHP-based smarthome framework.

For more information please refer to Official website or Support forum

Create container from template

Install template

  1. Download the latest release according to the architecture of your ProxMox installation
  2. On ProxMox
    1. Select desired storage
    2. Select type CT Templates
    3. Click Upload
    4. Click Select File
    5. Select the previously downloaded archive
    6. Upload it

Create container from template

  1. Click Create CT
  2. Fill 1st page as you like. Usage of Unprivileged container and Nesting is fine.
  3. On 2nd page (Template) select used storage and choose previously uploaded template
  4. Fill the following pages (Disc, Memory, CPU, Network) according to your needs

The container is now ready to run and Edomi will be available using http://<ip>/admin.

It might be neccessary to set the timezone according to your location:

timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Berlin

Build own template

Configure container

  1. Create container from RockyLinux template
  2. ARMv8: See Additional steps for ARMv8 on x86_64 host
  3. Install ssh and git 
    dnf update -y
dnf install -y openssh-server git
systemctl enable sshd
systemctl start sshd
  4. Clone this Git repository to /root/edomi-lxc/ 
    cd /root/
git clone https://github.com/starwarsfan/edomi-lxc
  5. Start the setup script 
    cd /root/edomi-lxc
./setupEdomi.sh

Now Edomi is installed and will be started with the next reboot.

Prepare template

If setup is finished, the system can be prepared using the script

./prepareTemplate.sh

This script will cleanup the dnf (yum) package cache and remove /etc/resolv.conf as well as /etc/hostname. You can shutdown the system afterwards to go ahead with the template creation steps.

Create template

After the container is powered off, perform these steps on the Proxmox web ui:

  1. Remove all network devices from the container
  2. Create backup of container with
    • Mode: Stop
    • Compression: GZip
    • Notes:
      • Edomi AMD64 LXC Template
      • Edomi ARMv8 LXC Template

Now login to the ProxMox host using ssh. You will find the template archive afterwards on the ProxMox host at /var/lib/vz/dump/vzdump-lxc-<id>-<iso-timestamp>.tar.gz. To use it as a template right on this system, the archive needs to be moved to another location:

cd /var/lib/vz
mv dump/vzdump-lxc-<id>-<iso-timestamp>.tar.gz template/cache/my-edomi-template.tar.gz

After this step the template will be available during container creation using ProxMox web ui.

Additional steps for ARMv8 on x86_64 host

  1. Do not start the container!
  2. Package qemu-user-static must be installed on host
  3. Copy qemu-aarch64-static into container filesystem and fix ownership/permission: 
    lvdisplay | grep <container-id>   # Search LV path of container
mkdir /mnt/edomi-arm-container
mount <LV-Path> /mnt/edomi-arm-container
cp qemu-aarch64-static /mnt/edomi-arm-container/usr/bin/
chmod 755 /mnt/edomi-arm-container/usr/bin/qemu-aarch64-static
chown 100000:100000 /mnt/edomi-arm-container/usr/bin/qemu-aarch64-static
umount /mnt/edomi-arm-container