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 1QRiIB-0003gp-Ib for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:04:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1CA8B1C1C1 for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 10:04:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svr-us4.tirtonadi.com (unknown [69.65.43.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E9821C1BA for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 09:57:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com ([209.85.215.181]) by svr-us4.tirtonadi.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QRiBW-000nc5-Jh for gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:57:54 +0700 Received: by eyh5 with SMTP id 5so2190034eyh.40 for ; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:57:47 -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 Received: by 10.14.50.7 with SMTP id y7mr2848532eeb.83.1306922267780; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:57:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.48.14 with HTTP; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 02:57:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 16:57:47 +0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] There should be a Handbook for installing Paravirtualized Gentoo Servers, do you agree? From: Pandu Poluan To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - svr-us4.tirtonadi.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - poluan.info X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 63a85241e871c39011ebd6f7f1aeeb80 Hi all, Sorry been very busy with office work. I'll see what I can do this week. On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 14:32, Ramon van Alteren wrote= : > Hi > > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 14:17, 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. > > I was wondering why you found it painful and what was different > compared to a normal install ? > > Ramon > With VMware, not too painful. Just have a booting kernel the first time around, then whittle down the kernelconfig to the barest necessity. With XenServer ... there will be gnashing of teeth come time to reboot if you forgot some things. Especially the 'transformation' of /dev/sda into /dev/xvda (or xvdb). Or the fact that XenServer's pygrub is too dumb to understand any kernel/initramfs compression except gzip. Complexities will in addition arise when you want to ensure your VM to be migratable between (physical) hosts. This bit me rather hard when I first installed Gentoo in my Cloud Provider's VMware. A particular VM failed to migrate, and I had to spend some time asking my CP to shuffle it around before it will boot and I can see WTF went wrong in the logs. Rgds, --=20 Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com Google Talk:=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 pepoluan Y! messenger: pepoluan MSN / Live:=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 pepoluan@hotmail.com (do not send= email here) Skype:=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 pe= poluan More on me:=C2=A0=C2=A0My LinkedIn Account=C2=A0 My Facebook Account