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 1QQK9N-0001AK-V1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 28 May 2011 14:05:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3078C1C150 for ; Sat, 28 May 2011 14:05:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABC4D1C0CF for ; Sat, 28 May 2011 13:32:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxm8 with SMTP id 8so1449920yxm.40 for ; Sat, 28 May 2011 06:32:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=JJNEgwKdcspZmd4+pYtaqEH19lXMaOgjS/7YkvD8eMg=; b=JzoBJF5dTZxvydy/uzZWZaElrIP8tp3T1BB9qVmW5egedjBZEM++rQPA88VrribMZv tcE6aTdLYT5K3/2U3VKEfPLogXWNpkg3IWao4BA0Qrpc0CJfeVic+dq3CZdw1aUy/gkp UUseElTK9sYADBjMCDkyoTgadSvZO6AGtanoE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; b=XkA3FaF3n7fHcKpCqTeoyIOFtgRGYjRkcPqbMO1dD5FhwKwkelayj8mT+FzgSuZjdt X/+zGFvIHQ64sdEAHDBTk6AzRmUROdEXn0CpQoh5hRf1AZ+zO5kNqnyrNJrQc64uAgI6 QcsXCx901xUi/vWHe6Cam4JHucZ/4/YPxngaA= Received: by 10.236.155.199 with SMTP id j47mr4079753yhk.127.1306589554115; Sat, 28 May 2011 06:32:34 -0700 (PDT) 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 Sender: me.kalin@gmail.com Received: by 10.236.110.10 with HTTP; Sat, 28 May 2011 06:32:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Kalin KOZHUHAROV Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 22:32:14 +0900 X-Google-Sender-Auth: soe05B-2bob7DkQEJpu9y3_Zl2s Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] There should be a Handbook for installing Paravirtualized Gentoo Servers, do you agree? To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: c29caa6556297a97c9b707ceac1d35d9 Hello Pandu, On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 21:17, 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? > 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.