On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Xen wrote:
On Tue, 22 Sep 2015, James Knott wrote:
Unfortunately, my work computer runs Windows 8. Yuck!!!
Of course, there are many who don't know better and think Windows is all there is.
Luckily, I do know better and I still think Windows is all there is.
:D.
Actually I believe I'm migrating to a VM inside of Windows. Not sure yet, but I seem to be in the process of wiping openSUSE off my HDD.
Still rsyncing my volume backups to a remote host.
I might have room to keep the backups locally as well.
One thing I learned though: you can't use XFS with LVM and create a snapshot of your XFS volume and then mount it; it will complain that the UUID is the same, so you can't mount your snapshots and make backups off of them, so there goes my XFS experiment, I'm back to ext3 now.
Please give XFS some credit. It has been an enterprise quality filesystem for well over a decade. === man mount <snip> Mount options for xfs <snip> nouuid Don't check for double mounted filesystems using the filesystem uuid. This is useful to mount LVM snapshot volumes. ===
I believe I'm hoping to run a Linux desktop or something close to it inside of Windows :p.
I wonder if I can use it to run services and connect to them from Windows. Ie. use Linux as an embedded server. That would be awesome. That would be like having a remote box or second computer, but it's still in this machine.
Ignoring speed issues, why not?
It would be lovely to migrate these "VM" installations to other computers at will. I've always best used Linux as a remote box. Ie. previously it was my file server, later it was my web server, and my email shell host.
I still mostly do that. 80% of my time on Linux is CLI. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org