Peter Varga wrote: > Has anyone thought about creating and maintaining a VMWare Virtual > Appliance (especially for ESX)? >
Hi Peter, creating some kind of Unattended appliance is a nice idea and I have serious interest in creating (or contributing to) such an appliance. The appliance should be preconfigured with a working Samba server that will have an "install" share with the typical subfolders scripts, packages and so on. I would concentrate exclusively on application deployment and do not care about OS deployment, see my previous post here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg06776.html There are two types of appliances I could imagine: - creating a complete virtual machine with Linux + Samba + install share pro: very easy to get it running con: quite a big file to distribute, any minor change would mean to repackage and redistribute the whole thing - creating an appliance as a Linux-Vserver, basic principles explained here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux-VServer pro: possibility to do distributed development on the appliance (no problem to add/edit single files in the scripts, packages... directories and therefore possible to do it with CVS) con: requirement to setup a working VServer host environment which is not as easy as doing the first steps with for example VMware server... Regards Gerhard ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
