Quick intro

[John Kim]

I'm confused whether I should stick go virtualization within a distro or dedicate a machine to the bleeding edge ubuntu server. 

Personally, I had a terrible experience with virtualization with testdrive. it took forever for the system to load, and I felt as if I had to constantly go through the install process and not actually run the operating system on the spot. 

What especially bothered me was when I was brought to the partitioning step. I might want to try vagrant, but if I were to use it or any virtualization solution, does it actually take up space in the hard drive? I'm guessing this would entail me to run the operating system straight from virtualization. 

please correct me if I'm wrong. I really want to be confident before I move forward. 

Chris Glass <chris.glass at canonical.com> wrote:

>Hi John!
>
>I recently started helping on the server guide as well, and so here are
>a
>few tips I can share:
>- Follow the procedure outlined here [1] for the source checkout and
>lanchpad/bzr integration.
>- Using LXC containers, it's very simple to spin up a new, pristine
>Ubuntu
>Saucy machine ("sudo lxc-create -n saucy -t ubuntu -- --release saucy
>-b
>(you username)" should get you started). Then simply login to it via
>ssh
>("sudo lxc-ls --fancy" will get you the IP address of your new
>machine),
>and follow the article you picked to the letter, or confirm your bug,
>etc...
>- Make sure you run "scripts/validate.sh" on your modified article, I
>somehow overlooked this instruction at first, but it is very helpful
>and
>saves reviewers a lot of time.
>
>Glad to see your interest on the server guide! Don't hesitate to join
>the
>server guide helpers team here [2] and join the mailing list (it's not
>very
>active right now but hopefully that will change :) )
>
>Cheers,
>
>- Chris
>
>[1]:
>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/SystemDocumentation/UbuntuServerGuide
>[2]: https://launchpad.net/~serverguide-helpers
>
>
>
>On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 2:11 AM, John Kim <johnkim.ubuntu at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Hi ServerGuide helpers,
>>
>> My name is John, and I would like to help out in the Serverguide
>project.
>>
>> I am interested in fixing some serverguide bugs very soon, but I have
>a
>> few questions.  First of all, do I need to set up an Ubuntu Server
>test
>> machine? If so, how can I do it? Before I tackle the bugs, I know I
>must
>> confirm them first on a local machine.  How else can I get started?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> John Kim
>>
>> --
>> ubuntu-server mailing list
>> ubuntu-server at lists.ubuntu.com
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server
>> More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
>>

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