servers

[Bill Cunningham]

     I want to apply fedora 38 to a VM in GCP to run in the VM. The 
thing is I am new to servers and the installation instructions are 
beyond me. I have always used console and even rarely GUI. SO the 
desktop is what I am used to. How do you install a server edition to 
remote storage? What is this VNC is that needed?

B

[George N. White III]

On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 8:38 PM Bill Cunningham <bill.cu1234(a)gmail.com&gt;
wrote:

>       I want to apply fedora 38 to a VM in GCP to run in the VM. The
>  thing is I am new to servers and the installation instructions are
>  beyond me. I have always used console and even rarely GUI. SO the
>  desktop is what I am used to. How do you install a server edition to
>  remote storage? What is this VNC is that needed?
>  
VNC used to display a GUI running in the VM on your local PC.  If you
only use a text terminal via ssh then VNC is not required.  If you do
need graphics there are a number of systems that run a special web
server in the VM to display graphics in a browser on your PC.

Examples are Rstudio Server and Jupyter Lab.

-- 
George N. White III

[Jonathan Billings]

On Jun 17, 2023, at 19:38, Bill Cunningham <bill.cu1234(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  
>      I want to apply fedora 38 to a VM in GCP to run in the VM. The thing is I am new to
> servers and the installation instructions are beyond me. I have always used console and
> even rarely GUI. SO the desktop is what I am used to. How do you install a server edition
> to remote storage? What is this VNC is that needed? 
In this case, Fedora Server isn’t one of the choices available for Compute, those are what
are available:

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/images/os-details

Note: Fedora CoreOS is not like your desktop OS, it’s a minimal OS to run containers (and
kubernetes).  If you are looking for something that use fedora tools similar to the
Desktop OS you’ve used (rpm, dnf, etc), you’ll need to follow these instructions:

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/import/import-existing-image#console

And use the images available here:

https://fedoraproject.org/cloud/download/

I’ve never don’t this, I don’t have a GCP account, so perhaps there are others on this
list who can comment.  You might get more mileage out of using one of the supported OSs. 
I suggest CentOS Stream 9, it will be quite similar to Fedora Server.

-- 
Jonathan Billings

[Bill Cunningham]

On 6/17/2023 9:11 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
>  On Jun 17, 2023, at 19:38, Bill Cunningham
> <bill.cu1234(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> >     I want to apply fedora 38 to a VM in GCP to run in the VM. The 
> > thing is I am new to servers and the installation instructions are 
> > beyond me. I have always used console and even rarely GUI. SO the 
> > desktop is what I am used to. How do you install a server edition to 
> > remote storage? What is this VNC is that needed?
>
>  In this case, Fedora Server isn’t one of the choices available for 
>  Compute, those are what are available:
>
>  https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/images/os-details
>
>  Note: Fedora CoreOS is not like your desktop OS, it’s a minimal OS to 
>  run containers (and kubernetes).  If you are looking for something 
>  that use fedora tools similar to the Desktop OS you’ve used (rpm, dnf, 
>  etc), you’ll need to follow these instructions:
>
>  https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/import/import-existing-image#console
>
>  And use the images available here:
>
>  https://fedoraproject.org/cloud/download/
>
>  I’ve never don’t this, I don’t have a GCP account, so perhaps there 
>  are others on this list who can comment.  You might get more mileage 
>  out of using one of the supported OSs.  I suggest CentOS Stream 9, it 
>  will be quite similar to Fedora Server.
>
>  -- 
>  Jonathan Billings
>  
OK thanks I will look into that. That answers my questions I am sure.