On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:48:17AM -0500, Matthew J. Harmon wrote: > I'm building a series of Xen (xensource.com) virtualized servers to > compartmentalize applications such as Apache, PostgreSQL, etc. and I would > like to provide each a custom build with only the necessary libraries. > > So far I haven't found a way to do this easilly, I'd like to be as > minimalist as possible with Debian (Xen's primary distribution is Debian), > any recommendations?
Ah I just answered this on the Xen list without realising you were using Debian. I can recommend running debootstrap in dom0 to download the minimal configuration. Then you edit a few of the config files there, and tar it up to use as a template for future guests. If you use the same filesystems then you will only need one kernel that can beused for all of them; if some have special kernel needs then maybe they can be done as modules. Setting up something like an apt-proxy is useful since after you've booted with the template install you will want to apt-get a few things that are not necessarily needed in every guest. For example, any guest that I am going to be spending a fair amount of time editing files in I will want to install vim, but for those where I don't edit much I will leave it with vi. Here is a page of some of my experiences: http://wiki.blitzed.org/User:grifferz/Xen
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