Finally installed Atomic - I love it! - one question

[Philip Rhoades]

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?

Many thanks for all the work that has gone into Project Atomic and I 
hope to learn much more about it in the future - including hosting my 
Rails and Jekyll Docker images . .

Regards,

Phil.
-- 
Philip Rhoades

PO Box 896
Cowra  NSW  2794
Australia
E-mail:  phil(a)pricom.com.au

[Dusty Mabe]

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. You
can package layer the virt packages and run libvirt on the host, or you can run libvirt
in a container. Either one works.

After you figure that out you should be good to go.

> 
> Many thanks for all the work that has gone into Project Atomic and I 
> hope to learn much more about it in the future - including hosting my 
> Rails and Jekyll Docker images . .
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Phil.
>

[Philip Rhoades]

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.

-- 
Philip Rhoades

PO Box 896
Cowra  NSW  2794
Australia
E-mail:  phil(a)pricom.com.au