Hi, I've asked briefly on the #smartos IRC but thought I might get a broader response to my questions here.
Does anyone have thoughts to share on running imgadm available images for CentOS vs custom installed instances of CentOS? Is there something in the SmartOS image kernels that is relevant or are these just stock CentOS kernels? Also, generally, what is the strategy for KVM 'updates'? E.g., When CentOS release updated kernels, is it OK to just update the KVMs in place (yum update)? One thing that I don't like on the joyant KVM images is the 'one big partition' partitioning strategy for what will be a 'production' server. I've gone to the trouble of re-partitioning centos-6 2.6.0 (df81f45e-8f9f-11e3-a819-93fab527c81e). Then I made my own image (clone) so I can redeploy it without the re-partitioning headache. Am I going down a dead-end path with this strategy? Clearly, it was lot easier installing a custom CentOS KVM (booted from an ISO) than re-partitioning the stock SmartOS image. I installed acpid on the custom guest so that a call to 'vmadm stop UUID' from the GZ shutdown the guest instance without trouble and otherwise it seemed to run OK (test was only to boot it and configure the network, and try startup/shutdown control). I am concerned, however, that there's some link to the hypervisor I'm missing with a custom image. All comments are welcome. Kind regards, Tom -- Tom Robinson IT Manager/System Administrator MoTeC Pty Ltd 121 Merrindale Drive Croydon South 3136 Victoria Australia T: +61 3 9761 5050 F: +61 3 9761 5051 E: [email protected] ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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