Dusty,
On 2019-02-19 02:19, Dusty Mabe wrote:
On 2/17/19 8:32 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> People,
>
> I have been following Atomic for a long time and have been wanting to
> test it out but other dramas have kept me busy . . I usually have my
> latest machine as my Fedora Workstation and my previous workstation as
> my server for about a dozen small web sites and as a mail list server.
> I have finally gotten around to buliding a new workstation with F29
> and
> turning the old WS into the F29 server. So now I have been able to
> use
> the old server as the new Atomic host and as a consolidated backup
> machine for all my old backup hard disks - mostly SATA but going back
> to
> IDE and one old SCSI backup that I had an early version of RH running
> on
> a 386.
>
> Atomic is just what I wanted for this backup machine - small and fast
> and a platform from which I can learn more about Atomic. I do have
> one
> question though:
>
> Could I make a dd image of the old SCSI drive and get it booting as a
> virtual machine on the Atomic machine?
There's no reason this shouldn't work (people do it all the time)
but...
Since we are focused on containers we don't ship the virt stack on
Atomic Host.
Right - I haven't even looked yet but with such a stripped down system
that is to be expected . .
You
can package layer the virt packages and run libvirt on the host, or
you can run libvirt
in a container. Either one works.
OK.
After you figure that out you should be good to go.
Excellent - I will give it a shot when I get a chance . .
Thanks!
Phil.
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Philip Rhoades
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Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au