Subject: Re: [vserver] Fedora as host?
From: Tor Rune Skoglund <trs@sg.no>
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:41:57 +0200

On 06. sep. 2012 16:51, Natanael Copa wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Tor Rune Skoglund<trs@sg.no>  wrote:
>
>> Personally, I am used to Gentoo, and the vserver system works perfectly.
>> However, in our use case, we might need to avoid a Gentoo due the need of
>> quicker updates than what is possible by a source code based distro like
>> Gentoo.
>>
>> Any comments appreciated.
>
> Do you intend run any services on the host? You could have a look at
> alpine-linux otherwise. I boot the vserver host from USB and run it
> from tmpfs. The disks are dedicated the vserver guests.

Yes, we do intend to run quite a lot of services on the host.

> Alpine Linux provides a minimal vserver host "livecd" image so its
> fairly easy to boot it up and test it.
>
> http://alpinelinux.org

Thanks for the hint, I'll have a look at it, although possibly not the 
right one for this project.. :)

- Tor Rune Skoglund