From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GfzaB-0006n8-EX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 13:59:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kA3DuhBZ003928; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 13:56:43 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kA3DrQUr025846 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 13:53:26 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so454377ugc for ; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 05:53:25 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=J1e7Ufy8YALGozyPDiWd5jerESLFMZ9j9iW1Bxi4TI9XuEEia/pqSNC8fcNRZ9lctTelKjdtjd1uUi0vXcMwqOAtsNiyrGbd84xBtTvt5r2tVyl9kqBKmT94DeYuRL0weuUceqQWuMHFVQalVCtLEmtTMbxx7TeKFTk1noireAk= Received: by 10.82.101.3 with SMTP id y3mr140176bub.1162562005303; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 05:53:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.176.12 with HTTP; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 05:53:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 21:53:24 +0800 From: "F.J.Zhao" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Mini Gentoo in VMWare In-Reply-To: <9b1675090611022143u4d5fc834ucdaba614fec34a55@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9b1675090611022143u4d5fc834ucdaba614fec34a55@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 4a0f0193-1852-4e5b-8f52-91a5dceae4f4 X-Archives-Hash: 570fe9a8afe7cdb1283d4db4b92834c5 In order to create very tiny vms, I suggest you use lfs instead. Gentoo is harder to do so. 2006/11/3, Trenton Adams : > 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? > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list