[dev] virtual machine bounty

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Colin Andrews <horde at headbonk.com>:

> I've been playing around with VMWare player a bit lately and I just   
> noticed the
> bounty for creating a complete horde installation on a virtual machine. This
> sounds fun and sounds like something I might be able pull off.
>
> So I am sending to this list to ask if anybody has already started   
> on this and
> if not to collect feadback.

No one mentioned working on it yet. There is the Live CD Summer of  
Code project   that could be used as a basis for the image, but that's  
still a lot of time until it's ready, if the project will be accepted  
at all. An image is also potentially easier, because you don't have to  
consider different hardware platforms.

> I don't think I even need a full VMWare suite to do this. I can just  
>  grab one of
> the free virtual machine images from the VMWare player site and install the
> necessary components.
>
> Here's what I'm leaning towards:
>
> * Start with the Debian Sarge minimal image - it's one of the smallest of the
> server grade linux os images on vmware player site, it's what I'm   
> most familiar
> with, and the Debian organization is painfully particular about stability.
>
> * Apache 2 (2.0.54) traditional threading model (most stable). mod-php4
> (4.3.10). Anything else? mod-python? mod-perl? This is supposed to be minimal
> right?

If you mean the prefork worker with "traditional threading", yes.  
Python and Perl is not needed at all.

> The original bounty description suggests that the image should be setup as a
> full mail server. I don't know if this makes sense to me. I think most people
> who would find this image useful would rather just point the horde install at
> another existing imap or pop3 server and not deal with all the DNS/MTA
> configuration to make a virtual machine usable for internet mail. There
> probably are *some* users who *would* want that, but I bet they would be
> capable of setting up the VM themselves. Perhaps 2 images, one with full mail
> processing capability and one without.

I think most people will use it to try Horde, like a demo or showcase  
system. For this case it should be usable out of the box, right after  
starting the VM, without further configuration.

> * SQL - I lean towards MySQL because that's what I'm most familiar with.
> Postgress is also an option. Any opinions? I'd probably also put   
> phpmyadmin on
> it because I find it so useful so often.

Both are fine, PMA too.

> Probably it would also be nice to setup a default start page that had some
> useful docs and pointed new users to the admin pages and what they need to do
> to finish the config.

Yes, a browser starting up with a Horde login or some  
documentation/welcome/splash screen would be nice.

Jan.

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