On 25/08/2013 23:33, Michael Mair-Keimberger wrote: > > > On Monday 26 August 2013 01:49:17 Yohan Pereira wrote: > >> On 25/08/13 at 09:50pm, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> > I'd recommend cross-building just a kernel and modules locally and > >> > copying that to the vm, it will only be about 6 to 8M > >> > > >> > > >> > Some food for thought: > >> > > >> > I do question the wisdom though of running Gentoo on a VM like that. > >> > I've always found that Gentoo (despite all it's fantastic awesomeness > >> > elsewhere) is really not fitted for that specific task very well - it > >> > tends to be a lot of pain and not much gain. > >> > > >> > Why do you want Gentoo on the vm? Is there a very good reason, or is it > >> > because you are familiar with it? > >> > > >> > If the second reason, you might want to have a look at FreeBSD or one of > >> > the binary distros based of Gentoo like Sabayon. You might find the best > >> > of both worlds in that space. > >> > >> Well I have a couple VM's running on 256 mb of RAM. While I'll admit I > >> initially chose gentoo because of familiarity. It seemed to work out fine > >> although I'll admit I've I haven't updated the kernel, just using the > >> kernel provided by the host. AFAIR the heaviest(memory wise) thing I did > >> on such a VM was running a java stock trading application in a virtual > >> screen that was accessed via VNC. > >> > >> I've never had problems(yet) compiling gcc etc. I remeber being able to > >> compile faster than my laptop's aging core 2 due processor. > >> > >> Currently I use one for my personal a mail server, quassel (irc client), > >> tt-rss, git/mecurial collaboration, development web hosting and other > >> random stuff. It hasn't borked on me yet but YMMV. Heres the output of > free > >> from the VM. > >> > >> $ free -m > >> total used free shared buffers > >> cached > >> Mem: 246 231 15 0 > >> 14 157 > >> -/+ buffers/cache: 59 187 > >> Swap: 494 57 437 > > > > Well, familiarity was my main reason but actually i though gentoo fits > anyway quite good on such weak systems? (well besides compiling on it) > You get a small system which needs not much space and performs quite > good. (thats why 5GB is actually enough for me - i don't store anything > there). > > FreeBSD might be a good alternative and in case gentoo is to much pain > i'll give it a try. :) > > > > BTW, i have an alix device at home which also has just 256MB Ram and > while the CF-Card (where the gentoo system is stored) has 8GB now, i've > started with an 4GB CF-Card and i did compile on this device - even > (hardened)kernels :) > > That was ~3 years ago, now i cross-compile for this device. However, > gentoo on such devices runs perfectly well and rock stable. :)
If it works for you then it works :-) -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
