CentOS - Oct 2009 - [off-topic] Build packages in virtual machine

Hi

Sorry for the silly question, but is it safe to build packages, like 
rpms, in virtual machines (virtualbox) and use this packages in real 
machines? Some of these machines are CentOS and others ares Opensuse.

I need to build (or would be very useful to have) Ganglia 3.1.x

Thanks

Marcelo

Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:
> Hi
>
> Sorry for the silly question, but is it safe to build packages, like 
> rpms, in virtual machines (virtualbox) and use this packages in real 
> machines? Some of these machines are CentOS and others ares Opensuse.
>   
I do it all the time, a couple of (Xen) VMs packed out with devel RPMs,
and use the finished RPMs in production servers.  No problems observed.
-Alan

Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:
> Hi
>
> Sorry for the silly question, but is it safe to build packages, like
> rpms, in virtual machines (virtualbox) and use this packages in real
> machines? Some of these machines are CentOS and others ares Opensuse.
I do this all the time, and have been for years, no problems,
so I think it's safe.

nate

Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:
> 
> Sorry for the silly question, but is it safe to build packages, like 
> rpms, in virtual machines (virtualbox) and use this packages in real 
> machines? Some of these machines are CentOS and others ares Opensuse.
It's actually recommended to do it that way. :-)

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Florin Andrei

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Marcelo M. Garcia a ?crit :
> Hi
> 
> Sorry for the silly question, but is it safe to build packages, like 
> rpms, in virtual machines (virtualbox) and use this packages in real 
> machines? Some of these machines are CentOS and others ares Opensuse.
> 
http://download.tuxfamily.org/centos/5/os/i386/RPMS/

All built in a virtual machine. Just to be on the safe side: build your 
CentOS packages in a CentOS VM, and your OpenSUSE packages in an 
OpenSUSE VM.

Cheers,

Niki

At Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:57:23 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos at
centos.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Sorry for the silly question, but is it safe to build packages, like 
> rpms, in virtual machines (virtualbox) and use this packages in real 
> machines? Some of these machines are CentOS and others ares Opensuse.
> 
> I need to build (or would be very useful to have) Ganglia 3.1.x
It is as safe as building the rpms on real machines.  A virtual machine
is really just as 'real' as a real machine, as far as the software
running on it goes.  Virtualization is really just a hardware 'feature'
-- that is, virtualization is effectively only a different flavor of
hardware, where the hardware is virtual (hardware 'emulated' in software
on the host system).
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Marcelo
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