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Lantizia

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Lo,

Soon we'll be getting a new Dell R200 to use as our head (with KVM support on the quad Xeon). But for now I'd love to start building openvz machines (not kvm) on our existing machine (which is not amd64 capable). If Proxmox VE is just a collection of small utilities/scripts plus a (I'm guessing php based) web gui + openvz + kvm modules. Then why no i386 edition? Unless theres some hidden build I don't know about?

Any thoughts on getting a very basic install of proxmox/openvz working on debian lenny i386 would be most appreciated so we can begin work before the new kit arrives.
 
OK I've been digging...

As far as I can tell most of the packages are cross platform, these are the only packages of concern...

vzctl <- i386 debian builds already exists
vzprocps <- i386 debian builds already exists
vncterm <- Can build debian package easily from ftp://pve.proxmox.com/sources/vncterm_2009-09-16.tar.gz
pve-kernel <- Presumably would need KVM stuff removing as no CPU that's i386 only will have KVM anyway.
pve-kvm <- Not needed, for the same reason as above.

For anyone looking for just a nice OpenVZ control panel on any hardware this would be golden.

Any comments at all?
 
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hi Lantizia,

i appreciate your post. i'm in the situation that i have several old xeon servers that are heavily equipped with multiple CPUs (32bit, of course) and memory. i don't want to get rid of them, because they do well, but i want them in a pve-custer for failover.

how are your efforts in building an i386 install cd?

cheers
pille
 
Hi Pille,

I wasn't intending on making a CD.

However if you install Debian Lenny then install the Ubuntu kernel that comes with OpenVZ (what the Proxmox team modifies to make their own kernel)

http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/linux-image-2.6.24-16-openvz

Recompile any the packages needed for i386 (no need to do them all, because as highlighted some are for all anyway)

ftp://pve.proxmox.com/sources/

And you should be a good to go with a OpenVZ only install of Proxmox.
 
i've patched the necessary packages for i386 and picked all required packages together for installing with dpkg, or apt{-get|itude}

currently this works on a P4-system. you can follow the instructions from http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_Lenny in general, but instead of amd64 you will choose i386 as architecture
(as it's all about this issue, here).

you can access my packages with a line in /etc/apt/sources.list:
Code: 
deb [URL="http://flippy.medialisten.net/%7Epille/pve-1.4-i386"]http://flippy.medialisten.net/~pille/pve-1.4-i386[/URL] ./
for now i'm using a standard ubuntu-openvz-kernel instead of pve-kernel, because the package build the whole kvm stuff, too which is not needed for our purpose. so install linux-image-openvz-686 as a kernel package.
 
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Well it's nice to see someone else required these packages... knew it was possible just couldn't be arsed to find some kit and compile it!

Can we please please please put these binaries and official instructions up on the Wiki?

We can't be the only people who wanted this.

Also having on the Wiki what options the installer chooses for LVM would be good too.
 
dietmar said:
But please can you remove point 3 from introduction. The wiki is not the place to discuss things.
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done. now i'm sure you've read it ;-)
dietmar said:
So how many downloads you have per day?
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currently there's no detailed high-level analysis available, but for the last 3 days since the repository is up, 3 unique users fetched .deb files (=installed something?) and 4 Packages.gz (=added to sources.list?).
since it's weekend and it's only advertised in the wiki and this forum thread i guess it's you and Lantizia and someone else ;-)
give it some time, and i'll report back if you like. if you and your team like to discuss it, i'm open to participate.
 
ok, for the last month we had a total of 60 users (should be unique, since no updates and they actually fetched .deb files). hit rates on Packages.gz are higher, but show same distribution and indicate regular usage.

14 GeoIP Country Edition: FR, France
7 GeoIP Country Edition: DE, Germany
5 GeoIP Country Edition: US, United States
4 GeoIP Country Edition: IP Address not found
4 GeoIP Country Edition: ES, Spain
3 GeoIP Country Edition: RU, Russian Federation
3 GeoIP Country Edition: NL, Netherlands
3 GeoIP Country Edition: IT, Italy
3 GeoIP Country Edition: CH, Switzerland
2 GeoIP Country Edition: RO, Romania
2 GeoIP Country Edition: PL, Poland
2 GeoIP Country Edition: CA, Canada
1 GeoIP Country Edition: SR, Suriname
1 GeoIP Country Edition: SI, Slovenia
1 GeoIP Country Edition: PT, Portugal
1 GeoIP Country Edition: MX, Mexico
1 GeoIP Country Edition: HU, Hungary
1 GeoIP Country Edition: DK, Denmark
1 GeoIP Country Edition: AU, Australia
1 GeoIP Country Edition: AT, Austria

this week i'm going to update pve-manager_1.4-10_all.deb and see how many are coming back...
 
Patrick987 said:
hello Pille,

is your repository down? i would like to test it because i have some 32bit machines where I also want to run proxmox.

best regards,
Patrick
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Straight from their wiki......
Scheduled Downtime


  • We are moving and our servers need to be transported, too.
  • This means the repository mentioned here will be offline since 2009-12-17 15:00UTC+1.
  • our new location should be available next week, but unfortunately we are still waiting for the fiber...
  • This entry will be removed, when we are online again. stay tuned...
 
Since there is now a KVM only kernel... and an OpenVZ/KVM kernel....

Perhaps the Proxmox team would like to take the efforts found here to make a OpenVZ only kernel?

It would be cool for the installation disc to offer 4 choices...
32-bit OpenVZ kernel
64-bit OpenVZ kernel
64-bit OpenVZ/KVM kernel
64-bit KVM kernel

As this will allow even more people to use the product on less advanced hardware... and more profit for Proxmox themselves as it will allow more people to run their Mail gateway on the PVE platform on systems without Intel-V support.
 
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