[ale] Virtual Dedicated Servers

[Chris Fowler]

Mike,

Can this help me create a virtual area to do development.

My develop Box:

/ -- RH 7.3
   |
   | /u01
       |
       | - devel - RH 7.2

TOo do development on my development box, I do the following command:

$ sudo /sbin/chroot /u01/devel bin/bash
CHROOT # su - cfowelr
CHROOT $

My development environment is reliant on libaries and stuff in 7.2 so to
keep my box on the latest version of RH and to make sure that all my
machines can develop alike, I have a CD which has a tarball of a
stripped down 7.2 install.  Anytime I need to develop on mew machine, I
just untar it into a directory and chroot there.  

So you prefer vserver eh?

Chris

On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 17:40, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 05:33:53PM -0400, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > Hello,
> 
> > Last week I went to visit a web hosting facility that offered virtual
> > dedicated servers on Linux.  They stated they had proprietary software
> > to provide this product.  Its like a small Linux system that is
> > controlled so the user can not use too many cycles up and limit the
> > other customers. It was intriguing.  To me ti should be dedicated or
> > shared.  That word virtual in the subject line of this email cancels out
> > the second word "dedicated".  Can someone tell me if there is an OSS
> > solution to allow VDS on Linux?  I might could put a view of my sites in
> > one to protect the host from hacking.
> 
> 	FreeVSD		<www.freevsd.org>
> 
> 	Vserver		<http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/miscprj/s_context.hc>
> 
> 	OpenVSD		(suppose to be a branch of FreeVSD - status unknown)
> 
> 	I'm currently using vserver for situations where all the
> virtual servers can run on the same kernel.  Even different distros can
> run on the same kernel and root in one vserver can't muck with network
> configurations or bust out of his security context.  In cases where
> I need a different kernel (or OS) I just fall back to VMware (which is
> neither open nor free but incredibly effective).  I've even got systems
> (virtualized honeypot clusters) which are running simultanious combinations
> of vserver and VMware for different virtual servers and machines.
> 
> 	Mike
> 
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