On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 10:46:53AM -0600, Todd Walton wrote:
I have a general question about virtual servers. Why couldn't somebody install a very very basic Linux (Damn Bare Linux?) and then let the customer pick a distro and install it? These places list what distros they offer. I'm just wondering what the technical considerations are that they have to offer the distro themselves.
You probably could install your own distro, at least vr.org offers a rescue disk mode. But the images that they have probably have the necessary VM drivers and utilities and other things that make it much easier to use. vr.org specifically states that you cannot configure your own kernel or partition the disk (cannot select partition type). They plan to support this as an advanced mode in the future, though (at least partitioning). I'd consider looking further into it if they had a little more detail, such as which specific kernel version they used (2.6 only tells me that it is less than 5 years old). I personally would also want XFS, because of how well xfsdump has been working for me. But, there are some annoying bugs in XFS in kernels before 2.6.23. Dave -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
