Hello, I would like to experiment with Xen some to see how I could integrate it in my various web application environments and hopefully make my life easier. I am currently using FreeBSD 6 but it seems that it doesn''t fully support Xen. I did some searching around and also notice some posts on mailing lists mentioning some trouble with the CentOS 4 distribution (something about the default Berkley DB package not playing nicely with Xen). Anyway, I know there was some mention of Xen on the mailing list a little bit ago and was wondering if anybody had any insight as to what OS / Distro would be well coupled with Xen for an end goal of Ruby on Rails, Mongrel, Apache, Postgres, etc... Thanks, Carl
Umm... oops. I really should proof read better before hitting the send button. Funny typo though. Sorry, -carl On 11/8/06, Carl Lerche <carl.lerche at gmail.com> wrote:> Hello, > > I would like to experiment with Xen some to see how I could integrate > it in my various web application environments and hopefully make my > life easier. I am currently using FreeBSD 6 but it seems that it > doesn''t fully support Xen. I did some searching around and also notice > some posts on mailing lists mentioning some trouble with the CentOS 4 > distribution (something about the default Berkley DB package not > playing nicely with Xen). Anyway, I know there was some mention of Xen > on the mailing list a little bit ago and was wondering if anybody had > any insight as to what OS / Distro would be well coupled with Xen for > an end goal of Ruby on Rails, Mongrel, Apache, Postgres, etc... > > Thanks, > Carl >
On 11/9/06, Carl Lerche <carl.lerche at gmail.com> wrote:> Hello,Hi,> I would like to experiment with Xen some to see how I could integrate > it in my various web application environments and hopefully make my > life easier. I am currently using FreeBSD 6 but it seems that it > doesn''t fully support Xen. I did some searching around and also notice > some posts on mailing lists mentioning some trouble with the CentOS 4 > distribution (something about the default Berkley DB package not > playing nicely with Xen). Anyway, I know there was some mention of Xen > on the mailing list a little bit ago and was wondering if anybody had > any insight as to what OS / Distro would be well coupled with Xen for > an end goal of Ruby on Rails, Mongrel, Apache, Postgres, etc...I''m currently using Centos4 and FC6 dom0 and RHEL3/Centos4 domUs without any problem, dom0 being the base OS from which you run domUs (the guests). With CentOS 4, you have to get xen packages from xensource.com, but they are pretty good. With FC6 and Ubuntu 6.10, xen is packaged in the distribution and therefore very well integrated. All those distributions should support the software stack needed for Rails. -- Eric-Olivier Lamey
On 2006-11-08 21:38:35 -0800, Carl Lerche wrote:> I would like to experiment with Xen some to see how I could integrate > it in my various web application environments and hopefully make my > life easier. I am currently using FreeBSD 6 but it seems that it > doesn''t fully support Xen. I did some searching around and also notice > some posts on mailing lists mentioning some trouble with the CentOS 4 > distribution (something about the default Berkley DB package not > playing nicely with Xen). Anyway, I know there was some mention of Xen > on the mailing list a little bit ago and was wondering if anybody had > any insight as to what OS / Distro would be well coupled with Xen for > an end goal of Ruby on Rails, Mongrel, Apache, Postgres, etc...opensuse 10.1 + ruby project http://software.opensuse.org/download/ruby/ darix -- openSUSE - SUSE Linux is my linux openSUSE is good for you www.opensuse.org
I have had good results with Debian + Xen + Mongrel/Rails/etc. All of the "servers" I have set up for my day job are Xen instances. I believe howtoforge had a nice guide for getting Xen set up with Debian. On Nov 8, 2006, at 9:38 PM, Carl Lerche wrote:> Hello, > > I would like to experiment with Xen some to see how I could integrate > it in my various web application environments and hopefully make my > life easier. I am currently using FreeBSD 6 but it seems that it > doesn''t fully support Xen. I did some searching around and also notice > some posts on mailing lists mentioning some trouble with the CentOS 4 > distribution (something about the default Berkley DB package not > playing nicely with Xen). Anyway, I know there was some mention of Xen > on the mailing list a little bit ago and was wondering if anybody had > any insight as to what OS / Distro would be well coupled with Xen for > an end goal of Ruby on Rails, Mongrel, Apache, Postgres, etc... > > Thanks, > Carl-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mongrel-users/attachments/20061109/8fa7d386/attachment.html
On Nov 8, 2006, at 9:38 PM, Carl Lerche wrote:> Hello, > > I would like to experiment with Xen some to see how I could integrate > it in my various web application environments and hopefully make my > life easier. I am currently using FreeBSD 6 but it seems that it > doesn''t fully support Xen. I did some searching around and also notice > some posts on mailing lists mentioning some trouble with the CentOS 4 > distribution (something about the default Berkley DB package not > playing nicely with Xen). Anyway, I know there was some mention of Xen > on the mailing list a little bit ago and was wondering if anybody had > any insight as to what OS / Distro would be well coupled with Xen for > an end goal of Ruby on Rails, Mongrel, Apache, Postgres, etc... > > Thanks, > CarlI''ll put my vote in for Gentoo linux. We are running a ton of Xen VM''s on gentoo and it has been absolutely awesome to work with. Cheers- -- Ezra Zygmuntowicz -- Lead Rails Evangelist -- ez at engineyard.com -- Engine Yard, Serious Rails Hosting -- (866) 518-YARD (9273)
> I did some searching around and also notice > some posts on mailing lists mentioning some trouble with the CentOS 4 > distribution (something about the default Berkley DB package not > playing nicely with Xen).Rails Machine runs Centos 4.3 Dom0s and DomUs on all of our servers. I haven''t seen any distro-specific conflicts although I uninstall everything but the bare minimum to run xend. Get RPMs from Xen Source and force install them to get the patched glibc. Regards, Bradley Taylor Rails Machine Ruby on Rails Solutions VPS Hosting and Deployment Consulting http://railsmachine.com
Check it out, a Gentoo Xen VM running in a Gentoo VMware VM: http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/617 this blows my mind a bit. but is probably your best bet for playing with Xen, as a VMware image. On 11/9/06, Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius at gmail.com> wrote:> > On Nov 8, 2006, at 9:38 PM, Carl Lerche wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I would like to experiment with Xen some to see how I could integrate > > it in my various web application environments and hopefully make my > > life easier. I am currently using FreeBSD 6 but it seems that it > > doesn''t fully support Xen. I did some searching around and also notice > > some posts on mailing lists mentioning some trouble with the CentOS 4 > > distribution (something about the default Berkley DB package not > > playing nicely with Xen). Anyway, I know there was some mention of Xen > > on the mailing list a little bit ago and was wondering if anybody had > > any insight as to what OS / Distro would be well coupled with Xen for > > an end goal of Ruby on Rails, Mongrel, Apache, Postgres, etc... > > > > Thanks, > > Carl > > I''ll put my vote in for Gentoo linux. We are running a ton of Xen > VM''s on gentoo and it has been absolutely awesome to work with. > > > Cheers- > -- Ezra Zygmuntowicz > -- Lead Rails Evangelist > -- ez at engineyard.com > -- Engine Yard, Serious Rails Hosting > -- (866) 518-YARD (9273) > > > _______________________________________________ > Mongrel-users mailing list > Mongrel-users at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users >-- Charles Brian Quinn self-promotion: www.seebq.com highgroove studios: www.highgroove.com slingshot hosting: www.slingshothosting.com
Thanks for all your suggestions, I will look into them more.> Rails Machine runs Centos 4.3 Dom0s and DomUs on all of our servers. I > haven''t seen any distro-specific conflicts although I uninstall > everything but the bare minimum to run xend. Get RPMs from Xen Source > and force install them to get the patched glibc.I personally would prefer to stay with packages, but maybe I''ll try this and see how it works. Thanks, -carl