Re: [gentoo-server] There should be a Handbook for installing Paravirtualized Gentoo Servers, do you agree?

[Joost Roeleveld <joost@antarean.org>]

On Saturday 28 May 2011 19:17:18 Pandu Poluan wrote:
> Okay, I just completed installing my 11th Gentoo server. Now I have a
> running total of 6 servers on VMware Cloud, and 5 servers on
> XenServer. (Still more to come, no worries; consider these as pilot
> project).
> 
> Fact is, I did all (or at least the early ones) that by pure (and
> painful) trial-and-error. Especially so since many useful tidbits of
> info on the 'net is sadly out-of-date.
> 
> Considering that virtualized data center is the 'in' thing today,
> shouldn't there be a Handbook for that? Or would a wiki entry suffice?
> And if the latter, is Gentoo-wiki a good quasi-authoritative site?
> 
> I want to volunteer to write the relevant howto, with one caveat: I
> have experience only with VMware Cloud and Citrix XenServer. For other
> server-virtualization hypervisors, I have zero experience.
> 
> Rgds,

I use Xen (native, if you can call it that) and VirtualBox extensively.
Once the initial draft is up, I'll try to add the details necessary to cover 
the differences.

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Joost