Timeline for What makes virtual box off topic on server fault?
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| Aug 22, 2018 at 21:50 | comment | added | realtebo | Development environments are production environment for the developers. When a sysadmn assists a team of tens people to their development, this IS a production environment, because here the service is the development environment. Do you think Visual Studio Code is not a production software because is about dev? Why do you think that 100 vboxes and all related networking problems are not a production environment? There are only my personal meditations, I hope to be constructive while asking you to revaluate your position | |
| Aug 22, 2018 at 21:41 | comment | added | yagmoth555 Mod | @realtebo you jump late in the debate.. SF is about question on production system. I agree in dev it have a use, but you fall out of scoop of SF | |
| Aug 22, 2018 at 21:18 | comment | added | realtebo | I disagree with this answer: a company could use a ton of vboxes as stable devlopment environments. Of course a complex configuration is not matter of any 'superuser's, not could be well received in stack exchange because configuring boxes is not a dev matter. | |
| May 27, 2018 at 6:42 | comment | added | MadHatter | @kasperd qemu/KVM? | |
| May 26, 2018 at 17:41 | comment | added | kasperd | @yagmoth555 That's quite possible. Since about 2000 I have more or less exclusively been using Unix systems. I had to use Windows for 5 months back in 2006 until I was offered a better job. So I can't really say what support for virtualization on Windows is like these days. | |
| May 26, 2018 at 12:30 | comment | added | yagmoth555 Mod | @kasperd I now think that the debate on linux is the reason the tag usage is not tagged offtopic directly. Interesting debate it’s for a linux newbie like me. your argument about OS support is interesting too, as I could tell the exact same argument against the OP for windows usage. hyperv got mainstream support vs vbox. | |
| May 26, 2018 at 9:03 | comment | added | kasperd | @MadHatter I was using Ubuntu as an example because it's a distribution I know. I would expect the same to be true if I had used Centos as an example. What virtualization software in the Centos standard repositories do you consider to render VirtualBox unnecessary? | |
| May 25, 2018 at 5:31 | comment | added | MadHatter | @kasperd the fact that Ubuntu doesn't do some things wrong is no proof that it does all, or even all important, things right. Also, CentOS does exactly what you describe, unless I've misunderstood you (except that you get seven years life, not five). | |
| May 24, 2018 at 23:05 | comment | added | yagmoth555 Mod | @kasperd I didnt know it was used on linux, but on windows the port is far to be enterprise ready by lacking feature like ha. Can we agree that when a user use that vbox tag + windows tag on the main site it’s almost always for a dev machine or a home usage ? | |
| May 24, 2018 at 21:36 | comment | added | kasperd | @MadHatter Ubuntu has one unified way to upgrade all of the installed software from repositories covering pretty much every kind of software you could need and provides updates for 5 years after release. What other server OS offers that? | |
| May 24, 2018 at 7:17 | comment | added | MadHatter | @kasperd I hear you, and you make a good point, but to my mind it's yet another reason why Ubuntu isn't really suitable for server deployment. I know this point of view may not be popular, but I'm definitely not willing to cede to Ubuntu the right to determine what constitutes "best professional practice". | |
| May 23, 2018 at 21:18 | comment | added | kasperd | I can't agree with this answer. Take for example a server platform such as Ubuntu Server LTS for the physical hardware and consider what virtualization environment you would choose. Using software from the standard repositories when applicable is generally a better practice than installing software through other means. Virtualbox is in the standard repositories for Ubuntu Server LTS, but the alternatives you suggest are not. | |
| May 23, 2018 at 17:18 | history | edited | yagmoth555Mod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 23, 2018 at 17:02 | comment | added | yagmoth555 Mod | @Sven I agree with you, as not much user use it, it’s just I can see a use, even if its only for .5% of all questions, I will edit to show more that and I will edit to direct to superuser, good idea | |
| May 23, 2018 at 14:42 | comment | added | Sven Mod | I agree that "emergency" situations might make it kind of necessary to use VBox. The thing remains: Most users on Server Fault don't use it, but it's quite popular with end users, so I believe it makes much more sense to ask this e.g. on Super User. | |
| May 23, 2018 at 11:02 | history | edited | yagmoth555Mod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 23, 2018 at 10:23 | history | answered | yagmoth555Mod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |