From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QQkQ2-0004RH-84 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 May 2011 18:08:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CD06C1C122 for ; Sun, 29 May 2011 18:08:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.164]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C0701C08A for ; Sun, 29 May 2011 17:13:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.151] (helo=smtp19.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QQjYV-00009b-O9 for gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 May 2011 19:13:35 +0200 Received: from 5ed02730.cm-7-1a.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.208.39.48] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp19.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QQjYU-0004Li-VB for gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 May 2011 19:13:34 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 384051EC2 for ; Sun, 29 May 2011 19:17:04 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id W-rmJE4b-SiL for ; Sun, 29 May 2011 19:17:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B6005D7A for ; Sun, 29 May 2011 19:17:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Joost Roeleveld To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] There should be a Handbook for installing Paravirtualized Gentoo Servers, do you agree? Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 19:13:33 +0200 Message-ID: <1324666.Nf79bgb9nr@eve> User-Agent: KMail/4.6 beta5 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1QQjYU-0004Li-VB X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-0.928, vereist 5, BAYES_00 -1.90, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.01) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: b7183ec0e10b9e96172948e4cc8f7083 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. -- Joost