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From: Tom Wesley <tom@tomaw.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg on my server (talk me out if it?)
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 21:46:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1102283208.4902.2.camel@tom.tomaw.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f1041205133778d824f8@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 13:37 -0800, Grant wrote:
> > > I need to have VMware installed on my web server to test updates.
> > > I've been searching for a way to do this without installing X for a
> > > while, and it just doesn't seem do-able.
> > 
> > Why run VMWare on the server? Run a clone of the server in a VMWare
> > machine on a desktop computer. Test updates on there and then update the
> > server the same when you know everything is OK.
> > 
> 
> That does sound pretty good, especially since VMware just virtualizes
> all of your hardware anyway.
> 
> There seem to be a few different options here.  Here's a summary:
> 
> *User-Mode-Linux
> You have to use the usermode-sources for your guest OS or patch your
> (vanilla) kernel.  If that's not what you're running on your host OS,
> your tests are less complete.  The devs are also set up differently on
> the guest OS.
> 
> *VMware Workstation
> You have to have X installed on the system.  You can use xvfb instead
> ( http://www.vttoth.com/vmvfb.htm )
> ( http://www.lemoncube.com/104.html )
> but that seems to end up a lot like having full-blown X.  xvfb is also
> not in Portage and seems difficult to put together.  The other option
> (mentioned in this thread) is setting up the test OS on a workstation
> instead of the server.  This would change things a bit more from the
> way they are on the live system so your tests are a bit less complete.
> 
> *chroot
> You can't test changes to the kernel.
> 
> *separate box
> Expensive.
> 
> - Grant

I've not looked into it too much, but is there anything wrong with qemu?

-- 
Tom Wesley <tom@tomaw.org>

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      reply	other threads:[~2004-12-05 21:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-05 18:12 [gentoo-user] Xorg on my server (talk me out if it?) Grant
2004-12-05 18:15 ` Andrew Gaffney
2004-12-05 18:47   ` Grant
2004-12-05 18:56     ` James Colannino
2004-12-05 21:18       ` Grant
2004-12-05 23:20         ` Bastian Balthazar Bux
2004-12-05 19:07 ` Neil Bothwick
2004-12-05 21:37   ` Grant
2004-12-05 21:46     ` Tom Wesley [this message]

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