On 2016-08-25 05:38:56 +0300, Solar Designer wrote: > We'll need to decide on whether and what to do with Owl next, > beside the prolonged life support. One possibility is turning > it into a smaller (and safer?) OpenVZ 7 hosting platform than > OpenVZ project's own VzLinux is (which is based on RHEL7, > inheriting the bloat), but nothing is certain yet.
That's how I use it. Besides being the virtualization host, Owl perfectly fits for small services normally running in a VDS (for me, that's only OpenVPN) or in VPS (that's almost everything, unless it requires bloatware like Java, Python or Ruby). Possibly, we can create the VZ template with absolute minimum of packages (primarily, libraries) for using as a starting point to make containers for DNS, or mail server, or HTTP(S) frontend, or database cluster member, or... whatever. Another option could be to use multiple installorder.conf files for different setups and choose among them during installation, like this: make TARGET=(full|runtime|devel|host|vztemplate) installworld That would allow our users to build their own distributions which would perfectly fit their needs. -- Alexey V. Vissarionov aka Gremlin from Kremlin GPG: 8832FE9FA791F7968AC96E4E909DAC45EF3B1FA8
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