[gentoo-user] OT somehow: experiences around linode

[gentoo-user] OT somehow: experiences around linode

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

fellow gentoo-users:

Who has rent a virtual server at linode.com and what is your opinion?

I find stuff like:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1101752

https://plus.google.com/+DiegoElioPettenò/posts/FbuwyVg79Eh

Maybe they have learned since then?

Any current opinions?

I spent a few euros and run some test-VM there ... performance looks
good so far.

Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] OT somehow: experiences around linode

[Al]

Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Who has rent a virtual server at linode.com and what is your opinion?

I have two servers with Linode, one running Gentoo, and Debian on the other.

My experience has been great so far.

My only contact with support was an ipv6 issue that I ran into a few
months ago, and they quickly replied with a reference to a Gentoo bug
which included the fix.

So here's one vote for Linode.

Al

Re: [gentoo-user] OT somehow: experiences around linode

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 30.11.2014 um 00:57 schrieb Al:

> My experience has been great so far.
> 
> My only contact with support was an ipv6 issue that I ran into a few
> months ago, and they quickly replied with a reference to a Gentoo bug
> which included the fix.
> 
> So here's one vote for Linode.

good to hear that

thanks

(compiling there right now)

Re: [gentoo-user] OT somehow: experiences around linode

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 30.11.2014 um 00:57 schrieb Al:
> Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>> Who has rent a virtual server at linode.com and what is your opinion?
> 
> I have two servers with Linode, one running Gentoo, and Debian on the other.
> 
> My experience has been great so far.
> 
> My only contact with support was an ipv6 issue that I ran into a few
> months ago, and they quickly replied with a reference to a Gentoo bug
> which included the fix.
> 
> So here's one vote for Linode.

What's the bootloader in their gentoo image?
no grub(2) at all!

There is a talk of pv-grub in their docs ... can you simply install
grub2 over it and be done?

Re: [gentoo-user] OT somehow: experiences around linode

[J. Roeleveld]

On 30 November 2014 11:45:21 CET, "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@xunil.at> wrote:
>Am 30.11.2014 um 00:57 schrieb Al:
>> Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>>> Who has rent a virtual server at linode.com and what is your
>opinion?
>> 
>> I have two servers with Linode, one running Gentoo, and Debian on the
>other.
>> 
>> My experience has been great so far.
>> 
>> My only contact with support was an ipv6 issue that I ran into a few
>> months ago, and they quickly replied with a reference to a Gentoo bug
>> which included the fix.
>> 
>> So here's one vote for Linode.
>
>What's the bootloader in their gentoo image?
>no grub(2) at all!
>
>There is a talk of pv-grub in their docs ... can you simply install
>grub2 over it and be done?

No, pv-grub is run inside the context of the host, using a kernel image inside the VM.

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT somehow: experiences around linode

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 30.11.2014 um 11:57 schrieb J. Roeleveld:

> No, pv-grub is run inside the context of the host, using a kernel image inside the VM.

... which is not in /boot as far as I see.
So if I want to add kernel-boot-time-options I have to install my own
kernel plus the entry in menu.lst, correct?

Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-user] OT somehow: experiences around linode

[Pandu Poluan]

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 On 18:00, Sun, Nov 30, 2014 Stefan G. Weichinger <lists@xunil.at> wrote:

Am 30.11.2014 um 11:57 schrieb J. Roeleveld:

> No, pv-grub is run inside the context of the host, using a kernel image
inside the VM.

... which is not in /boot as far as I see.
So if I want to add kernel-boot-time-options I have to install my own
kernel plus the entry in menu.lst, correct?

Thanks!


Correct.

pv-grub is a script in dom0 that will attempt to read the menu.lst in /boot
of the VM, and based on that file, initialize a domU with the referred
kernel (residing in /boot), passing all boot time options to the kernel.



It performs magic tricks to read the /boot proper, because / might be on a
different partition or even different virtual disk, but 99% of the time it
works automagically.

It's the 1% that you should be scared of :-)

Rgds,
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT somehow: experiences around linode

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 30.11.2014 um 12:49 schrieb Pandu Poluan:

> It performs magic tricks to read the /boot proper, because / might be on a
> different partition or even different virtual disk, but 99% of the time it
> works automagically.
> 
> It's the 1% that you should be scared of :-)

Ah, at least something! ;-)

Is it possible to somehow set kernel options for the existing kernel
image (without building one)? I'd just like to modify "init=" ...

Re: [gentoo-user] OT somehow: experiences around linode

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 30.11.2014 um 12:59 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
> Am 30.11.2014 um 12:49 schrieb Pandu Poluan:
> 
>> It performs magic tricks to read the /boot proper, because / might be on a
>> different partition or even different virtual disk, but 99% of the time it
>> works automagically.
>>
>> It's the 1% that you should be scared of :-)
> 
> Ah, at least something! ;-)
> 
> Is it possible to somehow set kernel options for the existing kernel
> image (without building one)? I'd just like to modify "init=" ...

Solved, thanks!