Re: [SLUG] Virtualization - Whither goes thou?

2010-05-13 Thread Amos Shapira
On 13 May 2010 13:45, Jake Anderson wrote: > Amos Shapira wrote: > > We use Xen+CentOS 5+DRBD+Linux-HA to achieve similar goals. > We actually build each side of the cluster separately using automatic > deployment tools (puppet and some glue around it). > We use ext3 on the DRBD patition, the DRBD

Re: [SLUG] Virtualization - Whither goes thou?

2010-05-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
Stay away from Xen as IBM and RedHat have both abandoned it in favour of KVM. Stay away from vmware as its closed source and only developed by vmware :) KVM is in centos 5.4 and every other distribution (debian etc). Centos 4.8 supports virtio for much faster io and network performance. At my und

Re: [SLUG] Virtualization - Whither goes thou?

2010-05-13 Thread Piers Rowan
On 13/05/10 18:08, Dean Hamstead wrote: At my undisclosed business we are running 14 physical machines, 128gig ram 2x6 core amd, each with ~100 VMs. What server hardware? Sun Fire X4140 Server? Just curious. P* * -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

[SLUG] web dav setup

2010-05-13 Thread Ken Foskey
I need to set up a simple read only webdav. No security. I installed the dav_fs and it starts but I cannot browse to the machine. DAV On Order allow,deny Allow from All Anyone got any hints. Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscripti

Re: [SLUG] Virtualization - Whither goes thou?

2010-05-13 Thread Mark Walkom
Just thought I would chime in and say this has been an awesome thread, lots of stuff learnt just from a few hours today. Thanks for sharing all. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Virtualization - Whither goes thou?

2010-05-13 Thread Amos Shapira
On 13 May 2010 18:38, Dean Hamstead wrote: > Stay away from Xen as IBM and RedHat have both abandoned it in favour of > KVM. > Stay away from vmware as its closed source and only developed by vmware :) > > KVM is in centos 5.4 and every other distribution (debian etc). Centos > 4.8 supports virtio

Re: [SLUG] Virtualization - Whither goes thou?

2010-05-13 Thread Amos Shapira
On 13 May 2010 22:15, Phil Manuel wrote: > We successfully run kvm on CentOS 5.4 as well, running a mix of windows XP, > Ubuntu desktops, further CentOS 5.4 instances. > Currently, we use virt-manager to manage the instances, but I'll be looking > at Convirture: Enterprise-class management for ope

Re: [SLUG] Virtualization - Whither goes thou?

2010-05-13 Thread Phil Manuel
We successfully run kvm on CentOS 5.4 as well, running a mix of windows XP, Ubuntu desktops, further CentOS 5.4 instances. Currently, we use virt-manager to manage the instances, but I'll be looking at Convirture: Enterprise-class management for open source virtualization in the near future.

Re: [SLUG] Virtualization - Whither goes thou?

2010-05-13 Thread Phil Manuel
I have to say they have been very stable. We don't do anything fancy to them once they are built as we can rebuild the centos ones from kickstart easily. We rarely don't migrate instances to other machines, and when we do we just rsync everything over and start up on the other machine. Phil On

Re: [SLUG] web dav setup

2010-05-13 Thread Ben Donohue
Hey Foskey DAV On Order allow,deny Allow from All Deny from none<--- do you need this? Ben On 13/05/2010 8:39 PM, Ken Foskey wrote: DAV On Order allow,deny Allow from All -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] web dav setup

2010-05-13 Thread Rick Welykochy
Ben Donohue wrote: DAV On Order allow,deny Allow from All Deny from none<--- do you need this? Also check your Apache error log. It will indicate denials. cheers rickw -- _ Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services In the modern world the stupid are cocksure whil

Re: [SLUG] Virtualization - Whither goes thou?

2010-05-13 Thread Amos Shapira
On 13 May 2010 22:41, Phil Manuel wrote: > I have to say they have been very stable. We don't do anything fancy to them > once they are built as we can rebuild the centos ones from kickstart easily.   > We rarely don't migrate instances to other machines, and when we do we just > rsync everythin

Re: [SLUG] web dav setup

2010-05-13 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
check whether the webdav lock db exists: # Location of the WebDAV lock database. DAVLockDB /var/lib/dav/lockdb check whether the module is loaded: LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.so I am not sure whether it should be "directory" and not "location": DAV On Options Indexes