[rt-users] RT Virtual Appliance (on Proxmox VE - OpenVZ)

[Martin Maurer]

Hi Jesse,

Thanks for your feedback, see below.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jesse Vincent [mailto:jesse at bestpractical.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 1:19 PM
> To: Martin Maurer
> Cc: rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com
> Subject: Re: [rt-users] RT Virtual Appliance (on Proxmox VE - OpenVZ)
> 
> 
> On Apr 21, 2008, at 11:51 AM, Martin Maurer wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We just released a virtualization platform (GPL licensed)
> > http://pve.proxmox.com  .
> >
> > On this platform, pre-build virtual appliance can be started within
> > seconds as we use http://openvz.org  here. Please note, by using OS
> > virtualization there is little overhead (just 1 to 3 % performance
> > loss, really!) - this is absolutely the fastest technology for Linux
> > server virtualization. (openVZ is the basis of Virtuozzo, the
> > commercial market leader in the VPS market).
> >
> > We are also building virtual appliances for the use in the
> enterprise,
> > e.g. our own mail gateway, a web filter proxy (both are
> > commercial) or a mediawiki appliance and many others will follow in
> > the next months. (please note, Proxmox VE is beta, but this will
> > change soon - subscribe here for
> > updateshttp://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Mailing_Lists
> >  )
> >
> > We use and love RT since years so we want to contribute also a RT
> > appliance - I personally know a lot of companies who wants RT but
> they
> > cannot install it - too difficult. We will solve this problem.
> >
> > As we are a Debian focused company, we prefer  to build the
appliance
> > based on Debian Etch (32bit) and it should be using the stable RT
> > packages, mysql or postgres (which database  is preferred?).
> >
> > So I would be happy if anyone can comment our plans and give us
> > feedback. Also I would appreciate feedback from Best Practical.
> >
> 
> That's really excellent to hear. I'm quite looking forward to seeing
> this. With regard to Mysql/Pg: We're pretty flexible. Is one of them
> more better packaged for your platform already?
> 
> As a heads up, we have something we've been working on to ease RT
> installation, though it's not intended as competition against a fully
> virtualized solution. Shipwright, our new build and distribution
> system is designed to let us version and build RT and a full
> dependency chain (currently to "just above libc") and ship source and
> fully relocatable platform--specific binary distributions.
> 
> Virtualization fits into a different niche than what we're working on
> and I suspect that your work will be a better match for many
> organizations.  When do you expect people might be able to play with
> it? :)

[Martin Maurer] 
Our platform is ready to test, so everybody can download and install
whatever needed.
E.g. a standard Debian etch template is already there (also centos 5),
so you can start the Debian (3 seconds ..) and you can use apt to get
the rest, e.g. RT packages. Or use your shipwright.

In a view weeks we will finish the planning and if everything goes well
we will create the pre-installed RT appliance - I will post this here. 

Best regards,
Martin

http://pve.proxmox.com


> 
> Best,
> Jesse
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Martin Maurer
> >
> > martin at proxmox.com
> > http://www.proxmox.com
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