* Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de> [Jan 18. 2007 16:03]:
Klaus Kaempf wrote:
For 2. or 3. a bash prompt would probably be sufficient (plus a way to install the application you want to run virtualized.)
Xen: no. You don't use xen guests just to boot to the bash prompt, usually you want to do something useful with them.
Agreed. But "something useful" can mean a lot of things ;-)
So you need some convinent way to install software. You also want security updates for them. I don't see how xen guests are that much different than a minimum system on real hardware.
Depends on how you manage your xen guests. From the 'inside' (having network and e.g. online-update running inside the guest) or the 'outside' (loopback mounting the image and install selected updates) ? In the end, its the (usual) decision between security and convenience. For security, you only want those packages installed needed by your application. Otoh, having software management utilities available can be very convenient.
chroot: very much depends on what you plan to do with it. The chroots which are created for running daemons in there (named, dhcpd, ...) are smaller than any package on the distro ;) For building packages you don't need network, but some other tools such as make and a compiler.
Exactly. But even for these environments, you probably need a minimal set of packages like glibc, bash, etc. The question is, shouldn't this minimal set be the 'very minimal base' (:-)) pattern ? Klaus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org