alfresco installation?

[Les Mikesell]

Craig White wrote:

>>> if I buy a new server, would you suggest that I install CentOS/RHEL-xen
>>> and run this as a virtual machine?
>> No, that was just a suggestion for a test install to figure out how it 
>> works.  Once you know where everything belongs, java provides enough of 
>> a virtualization layer.
> ----
> well, considering that I really don't have a server (or even a desktop
> system) around that I can adequately set up and test, I'm thinking that
> this might be a good time to strong arm the boss and buy a new server
> that actually has hardware support for virtualization.

The free vmware server will run on about anything if it has enough RAM 
to give some to the guest(s).

> Thus I am thinking that I could get a rack server with sufficient hard
> drive space, 4 GB RAM and a couple of Xeon processors, wait until
> CentOS-5.1 and set up so that I could have LTSP & alfresco running under
> xen...this makes sense to me, do this make sense to you?

I'm not sure I see the point of virtualizing something that runs fine on 
the native OS and that you expect to run unchanged for a long time.  On 
the other hand, I'd certainly recommend getting an up to date system 
with processors that can virtualize 64-bit guests just because those 
things are so much faster than the old boxes and you can run a couple of 
test instances without bothering your main system.  I haven't set up 
xen, so I can't compare it against vmware, except that vmware's ability 
to run the same guest image on windows/linux/mac hosts has been handy 
for me.

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   Les Mikesell
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