[KLUG Members] Virtual Servers

[Jeremy Leonard]

Oue route you could go is, in the lab create two images one with Windows the
other with linux. Image the lab according to the class's needs.

Partimage would work for the imaging.

You could also use Novell Zenworks or Symantec Ghost.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doc Rea" <rea at docrea.net>
To: "KLUG" <members at kalamazoolinux.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 7:32 AM
Subject: [KLUG Members] Virtual Servers


> Hey all:
>
> I'd like to get some feedback from folks on a challenge I'm trying to
> puzzle through...
>
> The Situation
>
> Once a year we offer a Web Admin class. I've done it for two years now.
> Once we used Linux (Redhat 7.3 at the time) and another we used both
> Linux (Redhat 9) and Windows (Server 2003). I'm planning on just going
> the *nix route this upcoming semester.
>
> Here's the catch: In the lab we work in, the PCs are Windows. Last year
> I tried Virtual PC with a Linux image. It works, but it's very slow on
> our machines (P4, 256 RAM). We don't have room on the drives for
> dual-boot either. I did convert a few old machines into Linux boxes and
> they worked fine, but we couldn't access them in the classroom (they
> were in another lab).
>
> We don't do a great deal of things, but we do have students do some of
> the following:
> * set up an Apache webserver and work with httpd.conf (a lot)
> * set up a DNS server
> * set up a mail server
> * set us a firewall and other security measures
> * write some shell scripts, a Perl cgi, etc.
>
> The Question
>
> I've considered setting up an older server and giving students root
> access to it (it can't get out of our internal zone), but I want to
> partition off each student's work. I've looked for information on
> Virtual Servers, but can find nothing so far but marketing information.
>
> Has anyone set up a Virtual Server (not Virtual Host) and partitioned
> off areas for different clients or testers who have full root access to
> http, mail, dns, etc. without spilling over into another account. I've
> read about it in FreeBSD (and don't mind going that way), but I can't
> seem to find useful guides on this. Any references you might have would
> be great.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Alan
>
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