Turnkey Installs on CloudatCost

Sparkum

Hmm, I'm confused where the images come from.

lxd-images import lxc ubuntu trusty amd64 --alias ubuntu
lxd-images import lxc debian wheezy amd64 --alias debian

Would this allow for ISO installs?

For example from https://github.com/turnkeylinux-apps/openvpn

scottalanmiller

Containers have been standard for over a decade. Can't figure out why suddenly everyone cares. Great technology but this is OLD stuff.

scottalanmiller

@Sparkum said:

Would this allow for ISO installs?

Not normally, no. These are coming from a container image repo.

Sparkum

@scottalanmiller

Ah, so probably cant install what I want on top then,

Just add additional bare linux servers (which is still actually pretty cool to utilize resources)

If the ISO has all the RPM's need is the only case where it works. Most distro ISO's don't work like that. Though some do.

StrongBad

@thecreativeone91 said:

If the ISO has all the RPM's need is the only case where it works. Most distro ISO's don't work like that. Though some do.

Like Elastix.

Sparkum

@thecreativeone91

Sorry all the RPM's?

@Sparkum said:

@thecreativeone91

Sorry all the RPM's?

RPM is RPM Package Manager (or was Redhat Package manager, now the name is kinda odd). It's install packages. The same thing you download when you use yum

Sparkum

@thecreativeone91
Ah gotcha thanks

scottalanmiller

Not as bad as YUM! The Yellow Dog Update Manager! Yellow Dog has been gone for a decade!!

Sparkum

On an unrelated (but semi) related note has anyone tried running Hyper V on one of their Big Dog servers?
Does it actually allow you to visualize a virtual?

Reid Cooper

I haven't heard of anyone trying this yet. I can't imagine that that would work well.

scottalanmiller

I concur, seems like that would be unbearable slow.

Reid Cooper

Seems like it would probably "work", but only as a technicality.

Sparkum

Thanks for the input guys.

Bought a BigDog1 so gonna give it a try (even if I just end up using it as my website server)
It just finished installing server 2008r2 and all my network tests (in the portal) fail and I cant console in (again from the portal) so ticket opened lol

KVM under linux is the only legal way to do it as you can't upload baremetal hyper-v.
It would be slow. And you still have them under one IP address as you only get one so you'd have to to NAT on the virtual NICs. Not really ideal.

scottalanmiller

@thecreativeone91 said:

KVM under linux is the only legal way to do it as you can't upload baremetal hyper-v.

Xen would be legal and I think you can get that to work too. Xen will shim itself under a running install, so I bet you could get that to work. And it would potentially work in situations where HyperV would fail (lack of hardware virtualization support, for example.)

scottalanmiller

@thecreativeone91 said:

It would be slow. And you still have them under one IP address as you only get one so you'd have to to NAT on the virtual NICs. Not really ideal.

Pretty big limitation. Although I think that you can buy IPs one at a time as an add-on feature.

Sparkum

@scottalanmiller

Ya 3 for $4/month or 6 for 7

Not sure how they handle the 1:1 Nat mapping of those IPs at the OS level.. Or I guess they might just add a new Nic for each IP.