Hi all, Sorry been very busy with office work. I'll see what I can do this week.
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 14:32, Ramon van Alteren <ra...@vanalteren.nl> wrote: > Hi > > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 14:17, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: >> Okay, I just completed installing my 11th Gentoo server. Now I have a >> running total of 6 servers on VMware Cloud, and 5 servers on >> XenServer. (Still more to come, no worries; consider these as pilot >> project). >> >> Fact is, I did all (or at least the early ones) that by pure (and >> painful) trial-and-error. Especially so since many useful tidbits of >> info on the 'net is sadly out-of-date. > > I was wondering why you found it painful and what was different > compared to a normal install ? > > Ramon > With VMware, not too painful. Just have a booting kernel the first time around, then whittle down the kernelconfig to the barest necessity. With XenServer ... there will be gnashing of teeth come time to reboot if you forgot some things. Especially the 'transformation' of /dev/sda into /dev/xvda (or xvdb). Or the fact that XenServer's pygrub is too dumb to understand any kernel/initramfs compression except gzip. Complexities will in addition arise when you want to ensure your VM to be migratable between (physical) hosts. This bit me rather hard when I first installed Gentoo in my Cloud Provider's VMware. A particular VM failed to migrate, and I had to spend some time asking my CP to shuffle it around before it will boot and I can see WTF went wrong in the logs. Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com Google Talk: pepoluan Y! messenger: pepoluan MSN / Live: pepol...@hotmail.com (do not send email here) Skype: pepoluan More on me: My LinkedIn Account My Facebook Account
