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I use a Gentoo VM for a lot of LAMP dev work, and I can tell you it's kind |
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of painful to upgrade packages with all the compiling. VMWare is slower than |
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normal to compile, mostly due to disk I/O. Since each HD is a big-ass file. |
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A few optimizations I might suggest: |
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Partition a dedicated physical hard drive into chunks and use VMWare's "raw" |
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disk so you have real hardware/hard disks. I'd suggest a very fast SCSI |
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drive for the best performance since you're running several VMs. |
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Also, look into the VMWare server version which uses the raw iron a bit |
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better as it's dedicated to running many VMs. |
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I find that more RAM on VMWare has a point of deminishing returns. I have a |
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VM that I dedicate 512MB of my 2GBs and honestly it feels slower than when I |
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give it 128-256MB only. It may be a WinXP thing that it's not efficiently |
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using the RAM right or something. |
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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: Trenton Adams [mailto:trenton.d.adams@×××××.com] |
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> Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 9:19 PM |
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> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mini Gentoo in VMWare |
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> |
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> Yes, VMWare is fit for the task, simply because I would be using it on |
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> a windows machine. Unless there is something better for a windows |
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> machine? |
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> |
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> Thanks for the hints. |
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> |
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> On 11/3/06, Harm Geerts <harmgeerts@××××.nl> wrote: |
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> > On Friday 03 November 2006 06:43, Trenton Adams wrote: |
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> > > Hi Guys, |
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> > > |
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> > > Has anyone here played with minimalizing everything for |
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> use in vmware? |
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> > > |
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> > > Basically what I want to do is create a series of VERY |
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> 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 |
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> 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 |
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> one computer. |
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> > > I would probably provide them 64M-128M of RAM each, for |
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> their specific |
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> > > service. Perhaps a little more if really required. |
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> > > |
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> > > Is there really anything that I should worry about? |
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> Perhaps I should |
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> > > just DO IT? |
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> > |
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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 |
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> 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] |
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> 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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