On 8/30/2010 1:00 PM, Josh Fisher wrote: > On 8/30/2010 10:50 AM, Dan Langille wrote: >> This just came up on IRC. As an aid to newcomers, a ready-made VM may >> be useful. A potential user could download and run the VM, without >> having to go through the install process. >> >> If you use VMs (eg VMWare, VirtualBox), then I think this would be a >> great way for you to contribute to the project. And help to lower the >> barrier to entry. Sometimes, the hardest step can be installation and >> just getting it running. >> >> :)
> I assume you mean SD and Dir in a VM. And an FD. Everything a novice would need in order to play with Bacula. > I have been using Bacula in a > qemu-kvm guest for some time now. Dir and database run beautifully in a > VM. SD is a bit trickier. SD works well with disk storage. All works as > expected even with USB disk, but only at USB 1 speeds. That is only due > to qemu-kvm not having EHCI (USB 2.0) device emulation, however I hear > that is forthcoming. The problem lies in using SCSI or SAS tape drives. > Passing particular SCSI or SATA/SAS devices through to the VM is > accomplished by passing through the PCI / PCIe controller hardware, > rather than the drive itself. Setting up qemu-kvm to attach anything > other than disk storage devices to the VM is more complex, and I'm not > sure it would make it any easier. I've never tried with VMWare or > VirtualBox, though. I would expect any VM example to be doing disk-based backups. To be clear, I think we need snapshots of working & functional VMs which a novice can download, install, run, and then play with Bacula. -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
