On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 3:15 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On 19-Sep-2013 01:59:47 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > I'm interested in setting up a virtual machine for testing Owl > > 3.0 from a development perspective. The development tasks include > > updating built-in components, editing source files, compiling, > > linking, punching holes in the firewall, and setting up jobs to > > launch at system startup. > > I'd recommend using OpenVZ containers (VPSes) for these rebuilds. > Setting up a build environment is as simple as Thanks Gremlin.
I don't have bare metal, so I'm concerned about performance: Mac OS X running a Linux kernel running an OpenVZ virtual machine (am I reading this right: http://openvz.org/Main_Page?). One virtual machine stresses this MacBook (8 Cores with 8GB RAM), and two drops it to its knees because of disk bottlenecks. > build@owl64:~ > lftp -e 'open ftp.ru.openwall.com; cd /pub/Owl/current; > mirror -Lev sources; get native.tar.gz; exit' && tar -xzf native.tar.gz > Ah, ok. I'll try it when I get to that point. Would you happen to know how to start the dhcp client? I don't have a network connection at the moment. So far, I've tried dhclient and received a "command not found". `man -k dhcp` returned "nothing appropriate". I have not dug around on the web yet. I often stumble around like this with administrivia, so its no big deal. > > I'm trying to determine the base OS to use in setting up a > > virtual machine. One of the few relevant search engine hits was > > http://openwall.info/wiki/Owl/packages. > > So I'm clear: for Openwall 3.0 (Owl-3_0-stable-20130408-x86_64), > > For development, you may like the -current version: it's quite > stable (personally I use it in the production environment) and > fresh. > > > I should chose a virtual machine based on Red Hat Enterprise 4? > > VMware is offering RHEL 3, 4, 5 and 6; but RHEL 4 seems kind of > > odd since its from 2005-2010 and Owl 3.0 is dated April 2013. > > [...] > > What base OS should I be using? Thanks in advance. > > RHEL 5 or RHEL 6 should be ok. Also, you can choose "other GNU/Linux > system" and make all necessary changes manually. Thanks again. Jeff
