[Serusers] [Sems] SIP Express Bundle - let's get started

[Greger V. Teigre]

[removed serdev, sems, and semsdev]

Jeremy A wrote:
>
> Regarding your project page, just a minor comment about your statement
> about Centos (and other O/S that will give  the same impression)
>
> "Recommended disk size and packaging creates a small OS image in zipped
> format (something like 3-400 Mb), but actual virtual disk inside tar/zip
> file is huge (10Gb) and results in loooooong unpacking times"
>
> This is not necessarily correct. The typical Centos VM disk image is 4Gb
> most of which is empty space. In my experiments with Centos and SER this
> could be reduced to 2Gb without problems. In fact my current Centos
> systems need around 500Mb plus data space.
>
> Also, when the image is correctly constructed (empty disk space set to
> zero) the image can be very rapidly expanded. If you have a downloaded
> VMware image that expands to 10Gb and takes a long time then it is a
> problem for the person who generated it rather than the VMWare system.
>   
Thanks, Jeremy. That has also been my previous experience, but I thought 
there was some special virtual appliance requirement.  Thanks for 
enlightening me about zero-filled space, I actually thought that was the 
default. I'll disregard the example virtual appliance I tested and I 
have updated the project page.
> I recommend that you generate a custom VMWare image  (or get a more
> efficient image to modify). You could start at 4Gb but perhaps 2Gb will
> be sufficient as SER is not very demanding on most resources. I guess
> you will need Apache, Bind, php, MySql etc. These do not take up a lot
> of space.
>   
If the compressed download is small, I'm not too worried about the 
resulting size. It should be large enough for a production install. We 
will probably have to experiment a bit.
> If you are stuck with no help to make a basic Centos VMWare image I can
> create one for you at a variety of sizes and with whatever support
> software you need.
>   
I would really appreciate if you could have a look at my comment just 
posted regarding scripted installation (also as a section on the project 
page) and validate the suggestion. We need to support new versions of 
SER, as well as new OS versions, so if we can script everything from 
scratch as long as we have a development linux environment where we can 
bootstrap things from, I think we are in a much better position.
If you could take a lead in exploring this up to a ready OS for iptel 
apps, that would be great!
g-)
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