On 11/10/06, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 11/9/06, Matt Raible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe we should so something similar for Roller?
>
> http://www.spikesource.com/intellanding/intellanding.html
Yes, that is a very interesting announcement.
> Roller + Planet + VMWare image?
>
> I have an Ubuntu VMWare image I could pre-install on Roller on. Then
> we could get it uploaded to the "Virtual Appliance Marketplace".
>
> http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/
>
> Just a thought...
That's a cool idea. I'm very interested in making it easier for people
to try Roller and to install Roller for production use. So far, my
approach has been to bundle Roller with an app server, database and
wiki server -- that's what I call the Blogapps Server bundle in my
book. It's good for folks trying Roller, but it's not good for
production use because most folks want to install into their own app
server, HSQLDB is not regarded as a production database and I don't
provide any instructions or support for upgrading a Blogapps Server.
I guess a VMWare image could be even easier, especially now that the
player is free. But it seems like a "demo" idea and not something that
works for production -- or am I missing something.
The whole virtualization thing and hype around it is because companies
have so many servers and other machines with idle CPU processes. With
VMWare Server, you can configure a 2nd (or even 3rd and 4th) operating
system to startup when your normal OS starts up. You don't even need
a 2nd Network Card, it'll get its own IP and everything.
I don't know if folks would use such an "image" for production, but
they could very easily do so. We could even do a Solaris-based version
and it should work.
Matt
- Dave
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