epoch1970;570497 Wrote: > I beg to differ. You just can't ignore the fact that performing a > rollback on a VM after an unsuccessful upgrade is so simple, compared > to downgrading a machine. In the context where most people want their > music server to "simply work", and the promise of a distro such as > Vortexbox is to install all the elements of a music server just popping > the install CD, then running and maintaining Vortexbox in a VM makes > sense to me. Not all people will dedicate a server, but some could > (read: should) dedicate a VM. > I can agree on the fact that some elements like power management may be > out of place in a VM. > > FreeNAS on a VM seems quite a candidate to me as well. Although my > recent experience with a linux host running kvm tells me availability > of the virtio device drivers (for disks, network cards) on the guest is > a must have. Virtio drivers are available on linux and windows, not > (yet?) on Bsd. > > Also, I still hope to see SBS updates rolled as complete system images. > It simplifies so much testing, I can't believe the Slim devices people > are not using this method internally. > > My personal policy wrt VMs is generally: 1. try to install from plain > ISOs, 2. use a system drive format that can be mounted/modified easily > without the VM manager (e.g. raw image file), 3. rely on file storage > on the host for data rather than put it in the system drive image (e.g. > do internal NFS mounts), 4. setup networks outside the VM manager (e.g. > my own bridges, not the default NAT network) > I didn't come with this recipe on the first try, and there certainly is > a learning curve, either for the host or for the guests. So I guess > exchanging on the subject can be of interest. > > I'd also like that we could avoid confusing "VM" with WMware, > notwithstanding its merits, esp. for Windows users.
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