Cloned virtual test machines (was: Did we really release 8.04?)

2008-07-07 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 07.07.2008 um 15:12 schrieb Scott Kitterman: There was some discussion at UDS about developing the ability to trivially clone a host machine into a VM so that users could easily test their setups. You can do this already. On the host machine, set aside a spare partition for the OS,

Re: Cloned virtual test machines

2008-07-07 Thread Felix Miata
On 2008/07/07 16:32 (GMT+0200) Markus Hitter apparently typed: Am 07.07.2008 um 15:12 schrieb Scott Kitterman: On the host machine, set aside a spare partition for the OS, and perhaps one for the virtual machine's swap. Setup your virtual machine to use these two partitions (not the

Re: Cloned virtual test machines

2008-07-07 Thread Jason Crain
On Mon, July 7, 2008 9:59 am, Felix Miata wrote: I'm well past my 15 partition limit in most of my machines. How to you do it? Only 2-3 distros per machine? 8 disks per machine? Something else? There is LVM. It has a high learning curve, though. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ User-Agent:

Re: Cloned virtual test machines

2008-07-07 Thread Felix Miata
On 2008/07/07 11:20 (GMT-0500) Jason Crain apparently typed: On Mon, July 7, 2008 9:59 am, Felix Miata wrote: I'm well past my 15 partition limit in most of my machines. How to you do it? Only 2-3 distros per machine? 8 disks per machine? Something else? There is LVM. It has a high

Re: Cloned virtual test machines

2008-07-07 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 07.07.2008 um 16:59 schrieb Felix Miata: On 2008/07/07 16:32 (GMT+0200) Markus Hitter apparently typed: Then you can clone your OS to this spare partition, unmount it in Ubuntu and launch your preferred virtual machine off it. I'm well past my 15 partition limit in most of my machines.