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

[Kalin KOZHUHAROV <kalin@thinrope.net>]

Hello Pandu,

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 21:17, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> 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 info on the 'net is sadly out-of-date.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?
>
Gentoo-wiki is a good start, if you write it in an easy to read and use fashion,
I am sure the platform won't matter. A wiki is better for editing though.
If it is more convenient for you, use the wiki on your site, just make sure it
is picked up by Google et. al.

> 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.
>
That is more than enough! Make a draft, other people can fill in
details as well.
I might have some notes on VirtualBox, but I'll need to dig them.

> Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer
Nice job title :-)


Cheers,
Kalin.