--- Adam Kosmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Actually VMware Server 1.0 is free as of about a month ago. We have it running on a Fedora FC3 box. My goal was to have it install as easily as possible. I haven't put a whole lot of time into exploring XEN, but so far it is def a lot harder to configure and since vmware is free I decided to start with this. I'd certainly be open to XEN if someone can figure out the details of the install keeping it very simple. If it is too difficult to install then it kind of defeats the purpose of an easy dbmail install. But again I'd love to keep everything on open software. > > 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? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
