Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg on my server (talk me out if it?)

[Tom Wesley]

On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 13:37 -0800, Grant wrote:
> > > I need to have VMware installed on my web server to test updates.
> > > I've been searching for a way to do this without installing X for a
> > > while, and it just doesn't seem do-able.
> >
> > Why run VMWare on the server? Run a clone of the server in a VMWare
> > machine on a desktop computer. Test updates on there and then update the
> > server the same when you know everything is OK.
> >
>
> That does sound pretty good, especially since VMware just virtualizes
> all of your hardware anyway.
>
> There seem to be a few different options here.  Here's a summary:
>
> *User-Mode-Linux
> You have to use the usermode-sources for your guest OS or patch your
> (vanilla) kernel.  If that's not what you're running on your host OS,
> your tests are less complete.  The devs are also set up differently on
> the guest OS.
>
> *VMware Workstation
> You have to have X installed on the system.  You can use xvfb instead
> ( http://www.vttoth.com/vmvfb.htm )
> ( http://www.lemoncube.com/104.html )
> but that seems to end up a lot like having full-blown X.  xvfb is also
> not in Portage and seems difficult to put together.  The other option
> (mentioned in this thread) is setting up the test OS on a workstation
> instead of the server.  This would change things a bit more from the
> way they are on the live system so your tests are a bit less complete.
>
> *chroot
> You can't test changes to the kernel.
>
> *separate box
> Expensive.
>
> - Grant

I've not looked into it too much, but is there anything wrong with qemu?

-- 
Tom Wesley <tom@×××××.org>