Re: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM

2015-06-30 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 06:26:14PM +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29 2015,to...@tuxteam.de nil wrote: > > > [snipped 8 lines] > > > IMHO not -- they complexify things. But you'll hear other opinions... > > > > On a more serious note, if you have to manage many VMs, or VMs on > >

Re: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM

2015-06-30 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 06:26:14PM +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29 2015,to...@tuxteam.de nil wrote: > > > [snipped 8 lines] > > > IMHO not -- they complexify things. But you'll hear other opinions... > > > > On a more serious note

Re: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM

2015-06-30 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Mon, Jun 29 2015,to...@tuxteam.de nil wrote: [snipped 8 lines] > IMHO not -- they complexify things. But you'll hear other opinions... > > On a more serious note, if you have to manage many VMs, or VMs on > different "technologies", those tools may help. But for single > (or very similar) VMs

Re: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM

2015-06-30 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Mon, Jun 29 2015,Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 29 June 2015 22:03:50 Arno Schuring wrote: [snipped 10 lines] >> intrastructure admin / manager / department, i.e. the network >> overlords. > > Thanks, Arno. I'm obviously too far out of the "swing" these days. > Sorry, that was typo from my

Re: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM

2015-06-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 29 June 2015 22:03:50 Arno Schuring wrote: > > From: lisi.re...@gmail.com > > Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 21:52:59 +0100 > > > > On Monday 29 June 2015 17:50:13 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > >> Our IT infra came up to me > > > > Please - put me out of my misery. I have googled, honest. _What_,

RE: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM

2015-06-29 Thread Arno Schuring
> From: lisi.re...@gmail.com > Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 21:52:59 +0100 > > On Monday 29 June 2015 17:50:13 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: >> Our IT infra came up to me > > Please - put me out of my misery. I have googled, honest. _What_, when he > she or it is at home, is an IT "infra". I simply can't fi

Re: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM

2015-06-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 29 June 2015 17:50:13 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > Our IT infra came up to me Please - put me out of my misery. I have googled, honest. _What_, when he she or it is at home, is an IT "infra". I simply can't find infra as a noun! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM

2015-06-29 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 10:20:13PM +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > I was making a debian VM to be used for a small teaching session on > shell scripting that I was planning. Our IT infra came up to me and > said, use Vagrant with it to make it eas