Virtual Server seems to be the topic of the month, if not the last two. three or four months. I also am thinking of running a virtual server. I think I would also like to run a second drive for raid. My primary purpose is to use the machine for a backup for my development server, and my workstation and start using good information organization practices. (Databases/Information systems)
So I will make an appliance that I can use primarily for a backup. Currently I have a windowsxp (the original OS from before I was weened) that I would like to make a clone of because it has some software that I rarely use, but I'm just not ready to discard yet. I think I would like to install an instance of CentOS 5.5 , and maybe Debian. One of these I will probably use for the backups. Maybe even run an instance of Linux From Scratch, freebsd and/or Gentoo all kind of on the back-burners. The max ram on this old P4 is 2Gb. I'm thinking that it would not be a good idea to run a desktop with virtual box installed in it and then run appliances in that. (Since my machine has limited resources) So it seems that the best thing to do is either run ubuntu virtual server, or virtual box on the hardware. If anyone sees anything wrong with this picture, please let me know. Any tips, suggestions, or recommendations would be highly appreciated. Thanks Paul On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Chris Louden <ch...@chrislouden.com> wrote: > Basically you want to be able to run an management app via Windows on > your laptop, but what is going to management it when your laptop is > not running? > > If you are going to have multiple Xen hosts constant management is > needed for load balancing or in case of host failure. So you setup a > Windows guest/VM that manages the Citrix hosts. Concept wise it sounds > funny to run a manager on the platform it manages but this is quite a > common practice for high availability in VMWare and Citrix > environments. > > -Chris > > > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Jeff Lasman <jpli...@nobaloney.net> wrote: >> Sorry, I don't understand at all. I'm asking about running the Citrix >> Xenserver in a virtual machine/virtual box (speaking entirely generically) on >> my laptop so I can manage Xen on my servers in the datacenter. > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
