Virtualization versus jails [was Re: Creating and copying jail images]

2007-08-14 Thread Angel Martin Alganza
Hello everybody, On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 01:13:42PM -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote: I've been searching for a way to create and copy jail images around for some time now and I've found a solution that works for me and Supposing one doesn't need to run different operating systems or even different

Re: Virtualization versus jails [was Re: Creating and copying jail ?images]

2007-08-14 Thread Oliver Fromme
Angel Martin Alganza wrote: Supposing one doesn't need to run different operating systems or even different kernel versions of the same OS, are there any advantages of virtualization (Xen) over jails? Both can be copied, moved around, switched on/off, replaced with almos 0 downtime, etc.

Re: Creating and copying jail images

2007-08-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
Josh Paetzel wrote: Problem: I need to create a jail image that I can deploy on multiple servers, ala a generic apache jail or postgresql jail or whatever. I need to be able to simply explode this image in to a directory and have it work, I'd also like to be able to compress the image