Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Adding KVM with support tools to DL?

[Kari M. <kar...@tr...>]

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Aihe:	Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Adding KVM with support tools to DL?
Tekijä:	"Bruce Smith" <bw...@re...>
Päivämäärä:		24. heinäkuuta 2008 22:25:56

>>       Then DL would be comparable (in some aspects) to VMware ESX 3i
>> installable, or VMware ESX 3 classic with service console
>> (RHEL3-based). ....and way ahead of VMware Server (an application).
>
> So there's no X required to run this?

I was wondering about that too.  :-)

	No X.

>> I'm not sure if QEMU is running with GRSecurity enabled (NO BRUCE!, it
>> stays in there...)
>
> We could always have the qemu and grsecurity as exclusive options in
> the build config system. This way you could build a non-grsecurity DL
> version with qemu (or whatever else, like xen, etc) included.

Yes.  qemu would only be included in the DL "server" version.

	Sounds very good....
There is also a requirement for a tool to create either tun or tap for the VM. OpenVPN is ok for that, and we have it already. Another option is dedicated tool "tunctl" or "tunctrl" from Redhat, I think.

>>       When can we expect i686 (non-GRSecurity) editions of 1.3.x?

Already on the FTP site.  All of the 1.3 releases I've uploaded (with
the "-bs" suffix), are compiled without grsec.  

	I didn't realise it was -bs, the difference. It used to be i586 (GRSec) vs. i686 (no GRSec).


The only difference
between those and the official server release is these are compiled as
i586 instead of i686 to allow more people to test them.  Is an i586
compile okay for qemu?

	I see no restrictions for that.


>> I feel more comfortable running those as servers.  Dunno why..

Same here!

> You can always compile your own.
> Not sure when Bruce is planning to compile the next version, but there
> should be an older one on the FTP server in the testing directory.

The latest 1.3 test release on the server now (about 10 days old) is
fairly current.  There have been a couple updates since then, so I was
planning on compiling a new one tonight to upgrade some of my own
servers tomorrow.

	11-Jul test is very good, thanks. Mailgw (clamav, sagator, spamassassin), firewall, ftp server, dns server. All upgraded ok.

	There was one minor hassle, tough.

	On a system without floppy drive, no HD, etc stored on USB key, DL on CD, upgrade was ok, but save-config did not work. (mount command in the script complained it couldn't mount the USB key as it was already mounted, even it was not.) I had to copy manually the etc-mods.tar.bz2 onto /dev/sda1. Reboot and everything, including save-config worked ok since.  I'll upgrade another similar system next week and report if it has same symptoms.

 - BS

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