Re: [Xen-users] filesystem image of Fedora Core for Xen? / Others VM

[Ted Hilts <thilts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Antoine

That's great and thank you but any size (even 2 gig or more) is acceptable.

I think in the interest of "excellence" and "comprehensive 
distributions" there should be no size restrictions.  It is what you 
decide as a build contributor. The contributors of the builds can do the 
build distributions as they see fit as long as the installation is easy 
and documented.  If there are some standards that someone thinks are 
appropriate in this regard they should speak out now about that issue so 
it is resolved prior to server installation.
If there is enough support in the way of build contributions then I 
would expect the server to be on line in a few weeks.  I would like to 
provide the contributors with direct access to the LAN (if they want) 
and definitely to the server.  Some parts of the LAN would be on line as 
close to 7x24 as I am able to manage. The Internet connection would be 
satellite and the physical location is a rural area in Alberta, Canada.  
It would be nice if someone could administrate this server remotely so 
that I do not have total control over it's usage but that is not a key 
concern.  Eventually, we could get more bandwidth and an alternate 
control site in order to ensure continuity so if for any reason one site 
becomes unavailable the other would take over.  All these details have 
to be worked out once there appears to be enough build contributors.  I 
would suggest that your builds do not exceed the limitations of a DVD 
(approx. 4.7gig).  I will pop as many 200+ gig drives into the server as 
it will take and can extend this to network (NFS or otherwise) drives. 
The server would have only 1 purpose and that is to serve these build 
distributions and associated information.
I would also like volunteers for remote web master for this proposed 
server -- in this case the web master would also be the remote 
administrator and do his or her best to ensure security and access, use 
and expansion of the server facility. Build contributors would work with 
this remote administrator(s) to arrange placement of their build 
distribution(s) onto the server and probably a web page associated with 
their build(s), one for every build. This web master can be located 
anywhere in the world as long as they know what they are doing. User 
usage issues that come out of this situation could be relayed to the 
development team after being checked by the Build Distribution 
Owner/Contributor if that is their decision. We take no responsibility 
for user problems and they will be properly advised on this before they 
download and must agree before download is permitted. I will fully 
cooperate with someone in this regard and the many details of server 
administration and installation will have to be worked out by us.  I 
would also suggest giving the Xen development team access rights to this 
server and significant say over related issues.
Thanks to all.  If this response continues then we have a PROJECT GO -- 
but not yet.
Thanks -- Ted



Antoine Nivard wrote:

> Ted Hilts a écrit :
>
> > I am still waiting for volunteers to freely contribute their Dom 0 
> > and DomU builds (with associated sources)  in a way suitable as an 
> > easily 
> For the French community, we will put some VM (domU) available:
> http://xenfr.org/tiki-index.php?page=T%C3%A9l%C3%A9chargement
>
> And we are looking for VM (domU) with this applications:
> * AlternC
> * Gforge
> * Plone
> * LVS
> * SambaOpenLDAP+ACL
> * Others?
>
> About the size of the VM (domU), we should provide images less than 
> 500 Mbytes?
> What do you think about that?
>
>
> regards,
>     Antoine N.
> webmaster of http://XENfr.org
> James done the same thing with: http://wiki.xensource.com/
> :)
>
>
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