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Hi all, |
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Sorry been very busy with office work. I'll see what I can do this week. |
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On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 14:32, Ramon van Alteren <ramon@××××××××××.nl> wrote: |
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> Hi |
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> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 14:17, Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote: |
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>> Okay, I just completed installing my 11th Gentoo server. Now I have a |
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>> running total of 6 servers on VMware Cloud, and 5 servers on |
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>> XenServer. (Still more to come, no worries; consider these as pilot |
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>> project). |
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>> Fact is, I did all (or at least the early ones) that by pure (and |
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>> painful) trial-and-error. Especially so since many useful tidbits of |
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>> info on the 'net is sadly out-of-date. |
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> I was wondering why you found it painful and what was different |
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> compared to a normal install ? |
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> Ramon |
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> |
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With VMware, not too painful. Just have a booting kernel the first |
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time around, then whittle down the kernelconfig to the barest |
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necessity. |
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With XenServer ... there will be gnashing of teeth come time to reboot |
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if you forgot some things. Especially the 'transformation' of /dev/sda |
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into /dev/xvda (or xvdb). Or the fact that XenServer's pygrub is too |
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dumb to understand any kernel/initramfs compression except gzip. |
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Complexities will in addition arise when you want to ensure your VM to |
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be migratable between (physical) hosts. This bit me rather hard when I |
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first installed Gentoo in my Cloud Provider's VMware. A particular VM |
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failed to migrate, and I had to spend some time asking my CP to |
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shuffle it around before it will boot and I can see WTF went wrong in |
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the logs. |
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Rgds, |
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