FWIW, I ended up using vantage and it worked great. When i didn't make stupid mistakes, it only took a few minutes to get a good headless dev environment going in virtualbox on windows 7.
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, I'm used to just running ssh. I'll have to get the key files over > using ftp or dropbox. > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:45 PM, bsquared <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 10/23/2012 11:15 AM, Mark Hahn wrote: >> >> I could not find a ppa for a current couchdb, but I did find several >> > sources with directions. >> > >> > thanks. >> > >> > My biggest problem now is just trying to get ubuntu running headless in >> > virtualbox. >> > >> > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:09 AM, bsquared <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> On 10/22/2012 12:08 PM, JC de Villa wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >> >>>> I have a number of servers on AWS for my day job. For my weekend >> >> projects >> >>>> I need a free dev environment. My wife doesn't like spending money. >> >>>> >> >>>> I'm sure I can find a solution. I'm working with webfaction now to >> see >> >> if >> >>>> they can donate the hosting. >> >>>> >> >>>> I spent a half-day trying to set up my dev environment in virtualbox >> on >> >> my >> >>>> local PC. But all I could find were ubuntu desktops and I just want >> a >> >>>> headless server with SSH. That is all I'm familiar with. I tried to >> >> set >> >>>> one up myself but it was a disaster. >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> Here's the page for the server download: >> >>> >> >>> http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server >> >>> >> >>> Although I'd suggest compiling your own couchdb, since the only one >> >>> available from the repo is version 1.0.1. I'm sure there's a ppa >> >> somewhere >> >>> for a more up-to-date version, but compiling on ubuntu it is fairly >> >> trivial. >> >>> >> >> >> >> I could not find a ppa for a current couchdb, but I did find several >> >> sources with directions. I made a quick reference here: >> >> gist.github.com/3940371 >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Regards, >> >> Brian >> >> >> >> >> > >> By headless I assume that you mean you don't wish to run X. Just have a >> server for telnet / ssh. >> >> You are not limited to Ubuntu by the way. You may want to look at >> Arch-Linux, or RedHat. Anyway ... >> >> I found this: >> http://askubuntu.com/questions/16371/how-to-disable-x-at-boot-time. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Brian >> >> >
