Kevin -- Although colinux may be fine for development, I wouldn't put a production environment on it without extensive testing, especially crash & recovery testing. As a simple example, in order to ensure recoverability, a production database will from time to time need to issue a "harden this data now" command. But if it is hardened on the Linux and not hardened on the windows side, crash recovery could be complicated (or a crash could theoretically result in an unrecoverable database). This would be an issue with any database engine. I understand that VMWare may have special hooks into the host operating system so that a hardening operation on the host also translates into a hardening operation on the guest (but I am not 100% sure about this). There are other issues as well, such as security, so that if one system is compromised, the other is not.
You have to approach setting up a production environment very differently from a development / demo / test environment. Also, if you are setting up a production environment, set up a Linux environment for which you can purchase support, either from a compay such as Linux etc. (Crawford, do you guys sell support?) or from Novell, Red Hat, etc. If you choose to not purchase Linux support, use the Debian stable release for production. Enough pontificating, back to work now... And you need to get back to playing tourist in Rome! -- Bhaskar On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 07:54, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: > Hey, this is really cool. > > And it just might be a key solution for me. Our office has purchased > a windows server for running our billing side. I have been planning > to purchase a separate linux server to host GT.M. But with this > coLinux, I could put them both on the same server! I had tried cygwin > as a linux environment on windows before, but was unimpressed. I > couldnt get an Xserver to work. Looks like the coLinux is better. > > Is the linux environment bug-free and stable? > > Thanks > Kevin *************************************************************************** This electronic mail transmission contains confidential and/or privileged information intended only for the person(s) named. Any use, distribution, copying or disclosure by another person is strictly prohibited. *************************************************************************** NOTE: Ce courriel est destine exclusivement au(x) destinataire(s) mentionne(s) ci-dessus et peut contenir de l'information privilegiee, confidentielle et/ou dispensee de divulgation aux termes des lois applicables. Si vous avez recu ce message par erreur, ou s'il ne vous est pas destine, veuillez le mentionner immediatement a l'expediteur et effacer ce courriel. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idU88&alloc_id065&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
