On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 2:37 PM Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 12:39:13AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> > >
> > > If you know the magic incantation to boot old SL/RHEL images (tarballs or rsync's)
> > > in a container on RHEL 7 or 8 or on Ubuntu LTS 20.04, or if you can point me to such incantations,
> > > I would greatly appreciate it!
> >
> > The "incantation" sepends, once again, on your specific needs.
> >
>
> So you do not know the incantations, either. bummer.
>
> To remember the problem: I have SL4, SL5, etc images (tarballs of the original machines),
> how do I run them on RHEL-7/RHEL-8/Ubuntu-LTS-20, in a VM, in a container, by hook or crook.
> (Assume I know how to untar a tarball).

Perhaps you could start with the "docker import" command?
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.docker.com_engine_reference_commandline_import_&d=DwIBaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=iIbqTKWrS15GRpil9foOlL39fBjPVZsV4i3J1yiocvQ&s=ZClmb5cufXctZhXb-_gUwwwriE2px1eMA2jpOBwkkMk&e=