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On Friday 03 November 2006 06:43, Trenton Adams wrote: |
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> Hi Guys, |
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> Has anyone here played with minimalizing everything for use in vmware? |
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> Basically what I want to do is create a series of VERY tiny VMs that |
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> are all independent of each other, which provide one service. For |
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> instance, I might put apache on one VM, and tomcat on another, and so |
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> on. Obviously, I would want their memory usage to be absolutely |
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> minimized, seeing that I would like to run them all on one computer. |
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> I would probably provide them 64M-128M of RAM each, for their specific |
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> service. Perhaps a little more if really required. |
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> Is there really anything that I should worry about? Perhaps I should |
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> just DO IT? |
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Nick[1] made a post about minimizing Gentoo a while back. |
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But that topic was mainly about the disk usage. |
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I suppose you would benefit from a system that uses the -Os flag to create |
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small binairies. |
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But do you think vmware is fit for such a task? |
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vmware is a big strain on resources itself. |
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You might want to have a look at xen[2] instead. |
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[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/160899/focus=160903 |
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[2] http://www.xensource.com/xen/xen/index.html |
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