10 Mar
2011
10 Mar
'11
1:13 p.m.
Am 10.03.2011 12:41, schrieb jstoldt: > Hi everyone, > > First of all, I agree with Ludovic and Vincent, a new VM should be created > every time a new version is out. It obviously is a lot of data that needs to > be stored but the problem with not having an up to date VM is that people > who just want to check out XWiki in a ready to go and possibly production > ready environment most likely do not want to bother with setting up the VM > and immediately having to upgrade the XWiki instance before they can try the > latest version. > > Anyway, either I did not make myself clear or you missed the notion that I > am not really a huge fan of VMs. On the one hand it can be hard to integrate > pre-built VMs with a companies IT systems, on the other hand, AFAIK, there > is no really free VM software that can be used in corporations. FWIW: http:www.virtualbox.org is truly FOSS easy to deploy and maintain on Linux and Windows - very mature and we're running small farm on it. Highly recommendable. Many hosters use XEN (just Linux) however. > What I had in mind was a package that will provide everything necessary to > easily create a ready-for-production-use environment including an easy to > use configuration wizard. I further thought about upgrade packages and > restructuring the XE documents to ease upgrading. > > Also, I am neither very familiar with VMs nor Linux, so I am probably really > not the best person for doing this kind of a job. > > Regards, > Johannes > > -- > View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/Off-topic-Xwiki-and-VMs-tp6157103p6157366.html > Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users >