It's a wonderful concept Toomas...
On 03/20/2013 06:14 AM, Toomas Tamm wrote:
Setting up the virtual networking in the underlying machine may be a bit
complicated if you have not done this before
Guilty.
I have not gotten my head fully around the benefit of fewer services on
many VMs versus more services on one hardware yet. The small part I do
understand revolves around experimentation. I have started into
virtualization, but prioritize VM behind FAI and LTSP as projects in
today's list. I expect to get to your reality, but later rather than
sooner?
I do have a partial answer for the squeeze abort however:
Based on recent experience, I've chosen to dedicate the new server to
wheezy even though it is more "bleeding edge" than I normally choose.
While installing wheezy testing in the same method as squeeze 6.0.7 the
"Detect network hardware" phase took a long pause [stressful] then
announced that non-free software was missing from available sources. I
chose the "NO" option to bypass the need to supply the
"tigon/tg3_tso.bin" package and the install proceeded without further
problem. I conclude that squeeze has the same problem but fails to
announce the issue.
So -- I don't yet know the consequences of the above decisions, but all
seems well so far. At least anything I might be able to contribute to
FAI project can be based on current software rather than old?
Cheers.
Geo
