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Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 21:53:24 +0800
From: "F.J.Zhao" <fuziok@gmail.com>
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Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Mini Gentoo in VMWare
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In order to create very tiny vms, I suggest you use lfs instead.
Gentoo is harder to do so.

2006/11/3, Trenton Adams <trenton.d.adams@gmail.com>:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Has anyone here played with minimalizing everything for use in vmware?
>
> Basically what I want to do is create a series of VERY tiny VMs that
> are all independent of each other, which provide one service.  For
> instance, I might put apache on one VM, and tomcat on another, and so
> on.  Obviously, I would want their memory usage to be absolutely
> minimized, seeing that I would like to run them all on one computer.
> I would probably provide them 64M-128M of RAM each, for their specific
> service.  Perhaps a little more if really required.
>
> Is there really anything that I should worry about?  Perhaps I should
> just DO IT?
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