From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg on my server (talk me out if it?)
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 13:37:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49bf44f1041205133778d824f8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041205190709.33af46e1@hactar.digimed.co.uk>
> > 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
> --
> Neil Bothwick
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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 [this message]
2004-12-05 21:46 ` Tom Wesley
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