Timeline for Can I ask for advice on a problem with a server if the OS I'm trying to install is not on the support matrix?
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| Jul 27, 2017 at 9:09 | answer | added | Nils | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 17, 2017 at 22:58 | answer | added | ewwhite | timeline score: 6 | |
| Apr 17, 2017 at 12:11 | vote | accept | vowel-house-might | ||
| Apr 16, 2017 at 23:04 | comment | added | joeqwerty |
Does that mean that if I ask a question on ServerFault about it, I'll get a response like "This isn't a supported OS so we can't help and you shouldn't be trying it"? - From some of us, yes. My initial response to questions like this is This isn't supported, therefore you shouldn't be trying it except for your own "homebrew" use, which makes it off-topic here. That of course is my own personal opinion on these kinds of questions. People are free to do what they want, but I tend to frown on doing this kind of thing in a production environment.
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| Apr 16, 2017 at 17:22 | answer | added | Jenny D | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 16, 2017 at 16:25 | comment | added | yagmoth555 Mod | @HBruijn Your first comment is worth to be upgraded to an answer IMO :) | |
| Apr 16, 2017 at 15:40 | comment | added | HBruijn Mod | Yes, or another supported Linux distribution and KVM if you don't want to buy a commercial license | |
| Apr 16, 2017 at 14:39 | comment | added | vowel-house-might | @HBruijn Do you mean, for example, to run VMWare on the server (which is supported) and run Arch Linux under VMWare? | |
| Apr 16, 2017 at 14:35 | comment | added | HBruijn Mod | The fact that the OS is unsupported does not automatically make your question off topic IMHO. Although we are not HP support and are therefor not a priori limited in which OS we have experience with, there are many good reasons to stick with enterprise operating systems and especially if you have hardware/driver issues we might still end up making a similar recommendation: that is to run your unsupported OS in a hypervisor that is supported. | |
| Apr 16, 2017 at 13:36 | history | asked | vowel-house-might | CC BY-SA 3.0 |