[OSM-talk] OSM server on a (Ubuntu) VM?

[David Murn]

On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 14:31 +0000, Nick Whitelegg wrote:

> Bear in mind though that many of us have to make do with VMs, for
> financial reasons.

Not entirely sure what you mean by 'for financial reasons', but I agree
in part.  I do wonder though, if youre using a windows host simply for
financial book-keeping and a ubuntu database server as a guest, youve
got things the wrong way around.  Make your host ubuntu and windows your
VM.  This gets around the performance problems of running a database in
a VM, and you will infact notice an inprovement with windows running in
guest mode instead of host mode, as it will benefit from the caching
available in ubuntu.  Especially if the only reason you need non-ubuntu
software is for financials, then youre better off having that running
part-time in a VM and having your main system operation running as host.

Unless you want to simply render once, dont care how long it takes to
setup or complete, and then delete the whole renderer.  If you expect to
be using the setup more than once, a virtual machine is not the best way
to go.. its not even 2nd best.

David


>  While trying to load the whole planet or even the
>  whole of a country like the UK might be difficult, if you try and cut
>  down the data, then it should (IMX) work reasonably well. For example,
>  don't try to do the whole world or even the whole of your country, use
>  a subset of data such as your region, or, if possible try and design
>  your app to minimise the amount of data it needs (e.g. use osmosis to
>  cut out irrelevant data).
> 
> Nick
> 
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