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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), tt-rss, |
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git/mecurial collaboration, development web hosting and other random stuff. |
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It hasn't borked on me yet but YMMV. Heres the output of free from the |
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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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- Yohan Pereira |
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The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference |
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between a mermaid and a seal. |
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-- Mark Twain |