-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 G'morning Dick & King Beowulf.
Couldn't help but notice that you both were talking about utilizing VirtualBox here. I just wanted to mention my experiences with this suite. I've had to rely on it at several points in the past, during low budget periods of geeking out. It worked very well for me for awhile; that is, until I started having some hard crashes for my host, while the VM was running. It wasn't until this had happened a couple of times that I ran into an unrecoverable situation, but I'd had friends with more IT experience than myself telling me for some time to migrate away from Virtual Box due to its fondness for eating disk images. I had run a very customized and personally configured BBS server, along with kerberos, LDAP, and multiple other headache-inducing virtual machines on some of these systems. Unfortunately, after digging through and being able to recover them a couple of times, I ran into a case where I couldn't even restore to a former snapshot. I was a little unhappy, to say the least, and contacted technical support regarding the issue. The developers flat out told me not to utilize the snapshot function for any sort of functional backups. That would've been kind of nice to know in the docs, you know? Regardless, I kept at it, being much more anal with the extent of my tarred & compressed backups. Unfortunately I was not anal enough. I lost another few machines & disk images, and I was done with it. There's no way I'll use VirtualBox ever again without having a periodic, at least daily, rsync script feeding incremental changes to a local or reliable, remote server. So I guess, yeah, I just wanted to mention, tread softly on that beast. If you're doing anything involved, it might be a lot better to go with VMWare, or the like. I've never had any problems with VMWare, ever. Just my own experiences in the matter. Best wishes, y'all! - -- Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the owner of this corporeal, rotting porksuit, nor its fiat-currency waving handlers. - -Damo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (OpenBSD) iF4EAREIAAYFAlPebTwACgkQerX40lUXtCOKpQEAlkaGFOfdkeYEEtL0FLME8roH 8Gktjcgv1REqLCmSEhUA/iMcjuEcRVEppJbGYcQxObuqOpyvy6rxVGVL34yeDXT3 =V1a+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
