On 08/07/2012 08:26 PM, Kevin Kluge wrote:
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From: Edison Su [mailto:edison...@citrix.com]
Maybe we can switch to Ubuntu 12.04?:
VMware supports it:
http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/Ubuntu_12_04.html
Xen/KVM supports it by default.
My recollection is that we picked Debian for stability and security. I'm sure
other distros would work, but this is a piece of CloudStack where a
conservative position (going for security and stability over perf and features)
is critical. Chiradeep is offline for a few days. I'd really like to hear his
thoughts and whatever experiments and research he did prior to selecting Debian.
I like your point that we could choose an OS that is on the list of
commercially supported guest OSes for the various hypervisors. But given how
few problems we've had with Debian I'm not sure how much practical gain we'll
get from making a change for this reason.
This could however be the point where we say that .deb files are needed!
This way we can easily build a Debian and/or Ubuntu System VM and users
can download both templates based on what they want.
Like Edison already said, it's just a Debian VM with a bunch of scripts.
All those scripts can be packaged. Packaging would even make it easier
to keep track of what files we actually have inside a System VM and what
we are doing.
The whole System VM's are still a bit foggy to me.
Whenever we're able to build DEBs we should also be able to build RPM's
just as easy.
Wido
