jdd wrote:
an other solution is vserver (http://linux-vserver.org/Welcome_to_Linux-VServer.org). I know this works very well on high end HW (I use it as a client, not configured by me).
But this have to run on distant hosted HW, with openSUSE 11 or any other linux/bsd that can be managed (and installed) remotely.
Does somebody here have *practical* experience of such thing? I have no need of graphical interface, most hosts will use somesort of wiki od SPIP CMS. I will have only one IP.
I have 6 vservers running on a Celeron 2.6 GHz w/ 1 GB main memory, without any performance problems. The host system provides no public services at all, just iptables, ntpd, and a heavily restricted ssh. The vservers are used to encapsulate a Web server, a mail server, a DNS server, and a VPN gateway; all of them Internet-facing, and two vservers with internal backend functionality (PostgreSQL and an application server) that are used by the other vservers. The installation works like a charm and is very low-maintenance. The system is headless and managed purely via ssh. A tip: It is very important to put upfront thought in update and patch management; that's independent from any virtualization solution. The problematic point with vservers is IMHO that there's a lot of documentation -- but no good one ... one has a lot to experiment when one sets up the stuff. Oh yeah, and there are no vserver packages for OpenSUSE, AFAIK. (My setup uses Debian, both for available packages and also for its much longer release cycle.) HTH, Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org