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On 25/08/2013 23:33, Michael Mair-Keimberger wrote: |
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> On Monday 26 August 2013 01:49:17 Yohan Pereira wrote: |
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>> On 25/08/13 at 09:50pm, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> > I'd recommend cross-building just a kernel and modules locally and |
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>> > copying that to the vm, it will only be about 6 to 8M |
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>> > Some food for thought: |
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>> > I do question the wisdom though of running Gentoo on a VM like that. |
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>> > I've always found that Gentoo (despite all it's fantastic awesomeness |
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>> > elsewhere) is really not fitted for that specific task very well - it |
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>> > tends to be a lot of pain and not much gain. |
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>> > Why do you want Gentoo on the vm? Is there a very good reason, or is it |
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>> > because you are familiar with it? |
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>> > If the second reason, you might want to have a look at FreeBSD or one of |
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>> > the binary distros based of Gentoo like Sabayon. You might find the best |
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>> > of both worlds in that space. |
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>> Well I have a couple VM's running on 256 mb of RAM. While I'll admit I |
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>> initially chose gentoo because of familiarity. It seemed to work out fine |
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>> although I'll admit I've I haven't updated the kernel, just using the |
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>> kernel provided by the host. AFAIR the heaviest(memory wise) thing I did |
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>> on such a VM was running a java stock trading application in a virtual |
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>> screen that was accessed via VNC. |
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>> I've never had problems(yet) compiling gcc etc. I remeber being able to |
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>> compile faster than my laptop's aging core 2 due processor. |
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>> Currently I use one for my personal a mail server, quassel (irc client), |
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>> tt-rss, git/mecurial collaboration, development web hosting and other |
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>> random stuff. It hasn't borked on me yet but YMMV. Heres the output of |
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>> from the VM. |
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>> $ free -m |
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>> total used free shared buffers |
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>> cached |
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>> Mem: 246 231 15 0 |
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>> 14 157 |
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>> -/+ buffers/cache: 59 187 |
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>> Swap: 494 57 437 |
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> Well, familiarity was my main reason but actually i though gentoo fits |
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> anyway quite good on such weak systems? (well besides compiling on it) |
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> You get a small system which needs not much space and performs quite |
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> good. (thats why 5GB is actually enough for me - i don't store anything |
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> there). |
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> FreeBSD might be a good alternative and in case gentoo is to much pain |
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> i'll give it a try. :) |
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> BTW, i have an alix device at home which also has just 256MB Ram and |
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> while the CF-Card (where the gentoo system is stored) has 8GB now, i've |
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> started with an 4GB CF-Card and i did compile on this device - even |
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> (hardened)kernels :) |
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> That was ~3 years ago, now i cross-compile for this device. However, |
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> gentoo on such devices runs perfectly well and rock stable. :) |
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If it works for you then it works :-) |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |