On 11/22/2010 11:41 AM, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
fellow patrons,
i am moving my company's in house platforms off of a mix of deprecated
soft virtualization solutions like openvz and bare metal installs -- i
have decided on using libvirt + kvm (in conjunction with cgroups for
qemu and possibly other uses).
i'm trying to use Arch for the host/hypervisor setups, for a couple reasons:
) very easy to roll custom initramfs builds
) shooting for a< 128MB 100% in-RAM diskless image (RHEV-H or ESXi)
) host is changed infrequently, and all-at-once (no need for
ongoing/stable repo support)
) i'm very familiar with Arch's initramfs setup, and with Arch in general
the other possibility i'm considering is Gentoo, but it's been quite
some time since i've used it :-/. neither arch nor gentoo will be
used for guests (likely debian/ubuntu here).
does anyone have any experience/insight here? the comparable
technology for RHEV-H for redhat, or ESXi for vmware. i am looking
into the `archboot` setup for inspiration on a custom initramfs build
system.
primarily i'm just look for any pointers/information anyone may find
useful, not only on the image itself but also management and
configuration techniques.
thanks,
C Anthony
How important is the stability of your system? Will you be able to build custom
versions of packages when security updates are released so that you don't have
to start upgrading everything?
