Considering that vmware is not free software, I would emplor you not to
bother building a project around it. A better approach would be to
target Xen.
Best,
Adam Kosmin
Kevin Baker wrote:
So I've been working on a simple way to scale / install the
DBmail-Postfix system we put together. The idea being that
it takes just to many steps to configure a complete new
system, thus too long and prone to mistakes in situations
where we might really need a new box in a matter of hours
not days.
I've explored a bunch of options including imaging and
current free/open virtualization solutions.
I selected VMware's free virtualization server for the
solution. The idea is to create a complete working install
of dbmail/postfix as a virtual server that can be simply
deployed to new machines as our hardware requirements grow.
So now rather than taking the time to build a completely
new box, about 4 hours, I can build a new box by simply
installing vmware and copying an my virtual server over, 15
mins. Works GREAT!
There are definite sacrifices on performance when using a
virtual server, but for us it is worth the ease to
deployment and scalability options.
I strongly considered XEN and still might go back to it,
but its configuration was a bit much kinda defeating the
purpose. I can have a VMmware server up and running off of
one rpm a couple minutes. Not open, but still free.
To setup a new server, I just install mysql/vmware on host
os, copy the virtual dbmail appliance into vmware, startup
and run a quick iptables config script. done :)
Anyway I thought people might be interested in this. I
would like to start a project on source forge or other that
is linked to vmware's community virtual appliance site. The
project would hopefully follow a release schedule with
updates to the various servers contained in the virtual
dbmail appliance. Anyone interested?
