+# Path's to the vserver references images and stubs
+vrefdir=$PWD/vservers/.vref
+vref=${vrefdir}/${slicefamily}
+# stubs are created in a subdir per slicefamily
+vstubdir=$PWD/vservers/.vstub/${slicefamily}
+
+# Make /vservers and default vserver reference image
+install -d -m 755 ${vref}
+# needed for pldistros that don't have any system vserver images
+install -d -m 755 ${vstubdir}
+
+# Some of the PlanetLab RPMs attempt to (re)start themselves in %post,
+# unless the installation is running inside the BootCD environment. We
+# would like to pretend that we are.
+export PL_BOOTCD=1
+
+# Populate image with vserver-reference packages
+pl_root_makedevs ${vref}
+# locate the packages and groups file
+pkgsfile=$(pl_locateDistroFile ../build/ ${pldistro} vserver.pkgs)
+pl_root_mkfedora ${vref} ${pldistro} $pkgsfile
+pl_root_tune_image ${vref}
+
+systemvserver_count=$(ls ../build/config.${pldistro}/vserver-*.pkgs 2> /dev/null | wc -l)
+[ $systemvserver_count -gt 0 ] && for systemvserver in $(ls ../build/config.${pldistro}/vserver-*.pkgs) ; do
+ NAME=$(basename $systemvserver .pkgs | sed -e s,vserver-,,)
+
+ echo "--------START BUILDING system vserver ${NAME}: $(date)"
+
+ # "Parse" out the packages and groups for yum
+ systempackages=$(pl_getPackages ${pl_DISTRO_NAME} $pldistro $systemvserver)
+ systemgroups=$(pl_getGroups ${pl_DISTRO_NAME} $pldistro $systemvserver)
+
+ vdir=${vstubdir}/${NAME}
+ rm -rf ${vdir}/*
+ install -d -m 755 ${vdir}
+
+ # Clone the base vserver reference to the system vserver reference
+ (cd ${vref} && find . | cpio -m -d -u -p ${vdir})
+ rm -f ${vdir}/var/lib/rpm/__db*
+
+ # Communicate to the initialization script from which vref this stub was cloned
+ echo ${slicefamily} > ${vdir}.cloned