I've gotten reasonably comfortable with manual instantiation
of vserver guests, and would like to start manipulating them
by scripts.
A few questions for my basic understanding:
1) if I vserver vXY stop, can I package the static directory
with tar and copy it somewhere/rsync it someplace else,
will the entire state will be saved? Including e.g. PostgreSQL
dbases, or will I have to make a dump and reimport afterwards?
Which files context is still missing (which directories would
I also have to rsync?)
2) Are there any demo scripts which instantiate a fully-formed/preconfigured
e.g. Debian host with a given IP address? Add users or packages
after the fact (or is it easier to execute scripts as root in
a running guest?) Pointers to list archive are very fine.
3) Are there any existing scripts to migrate a running guest
to a different server? A simple way would be to do a variation
of question 1). Can I make vserver guests live on a NFS partition?
Lustre? PVFS? Is there a way of keeping two running guest
instances synchronous, save of a HA/drbd based setup? (I have
some very basic understanding of it, just enough for a HA NFS system).
I realize some snapshot/migration functionality for clusters
is being worked on -- how far is this removed from production?
4) Is there a simple way to limit host file system size to
a fixed limit, e.g. multiple of 1 GByte?
I would like to start working with an amd64-debian based machine
(only 4 GBytes, though -- should I then just stick with vanilla 32 bit
Debian, or does this result in a noticeable performance hit on
146 Opterons?), so if anyone has a working vserver-patched amd64 kernel
package I would very much like a copy (Markus, are you there?).
-- Eugen* Leitl leitl http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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