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MikePTMikePT Moderator, Patron Provider, Veteran
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Any within LET pricing?

I need to run a custom OVA image, hipchat one.

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  • sandrosandro Member

    Arubaclould but I'm not sure about custom.images

  • JonchunJonchun Member

    mount the ova image in recovery mode within virtualbox

    dd it over to any provider who supports recovery mode (just about any kvm provider) + boot from disk/custom kernel

    done.

  • MikePTMikePT Moderator, Patron Provider, Veteran

    @sandro said:
    Arubaclould but I'm not sure about custom.images

    Yep, not sure if they support custom images.

    Thanks sandro!

    @Jonchun said:
    mount the ova image in recovery mode within virtualbox

    dd it over to any provider who supports recovery mode (just about any kvm provider) + boot from disk/custom kernel

    done.

    Certainly an idea. But... Don't want to lose all that time.

    In the meantime instead of HipChat, I'm considering Rocket.chat, it looks much better.

  • JonchunJonchun Member

    Adding over a disk image will take you a couple hours assuming your network isnt complete crap. And its not like you have to monitor it. If you had done that right away instead of looking around for le* priced providers, you would be done already...

  • DamianDamian Member

    Virtualbox has some unique properties (like incomplete API, have to buy an add-on license if you want to give your users a console, etc) that make it rather non-conducive to selling hosting. You would be best looking for just vmware host instead.

  • MikePTMikePT Moderator, Patron Provider, Veteran

    @Jonchun said:
    Adding over a disk image will take you a couple hours assuming your network isnt complete crap. And its not like you have to monitor it. If you had done that right away instead of looking around for le* priced providers, you would be done already...

    Actually I'm multi task... But installing virtualbox etc, too much hassle.

  • justvmjustvm Member, Patron Provider
    edited July 2016

    @MrGeneral said:

    @Jonchun said:
    Adding over a disk image will take you a couple hours assuming your network isnt complete crap. And its not like you have to monitor it. If you had done that right away instead of looking around for le* priced providers, you would be done already...

    Actually I'm multi task... But installing virtualbox etc, too much hassle.

    As I understand Rocket.chat does not need virtualization you can install it straight to a Centos 6 or 7, Debian, Ubuntu, Windows...., so any VPS will do it

  • BradNDBradND Member

    Virtual box isn't production ready and doesn't share many of the features vmware has. Either use vmware or stop being lazy and install the software yourself?

  • pbgbenpbgben Member, Host Rep

    What about mattermost. http://docs.mattermost.com/install/prod-ubuntu.html

    Thanked by 1MikePT
  • SadySady Member

    You can easily convert ova image to kvm raw. I did the same for kali linux's image, however you'll have to ask your provider to handle taking care of mounting raw image to your server.

    Thanked by 1MikePT
  • SadySady Member
    edited July 2016

    BTW how pricing looks for self hosted hipchat?
    Also did you consider Slack?

  • camargcamarg Member

    Hipchat is quite heavy. You'll need at least 4GB of RAM and a good CPU. Don't waste your time trying to host it on anything less than that.

    I would recommend to host it locally first, just to see whether you like it or not.

  • MikePTMikePT Moderator, Patron Provider, Veteran

    @vpsrus said:

    @MrGeneral said:

    @Jonchun said:
    Adding over a disk image will take you a couple hours assuming your network isnt complete crap. And its not like you have to monitor it. If you had done that right away instead of looking around for le* priced providers, you would be done already...

    Actually I'm multi task... But installing virtualbox etc, too much hassle.

    As I understand Rocket.chat does not need virtualization you can install it straight to a Centos 6 or 7, Debian, Ubuntu, Windows...., so any VPS will do it

    It was for HipChat.

    @pbgben said:
    What about mattermost. http://docs.mattermost.com/install/prod-ubuntu.html

    Nice! Interesting project!
    Will evaluate.

    @Sady said:
    You can easily convert ova image to kvm raw. I did the same for kali linux's image, however you'll have to ask your provider to handle taking care of mounting raw image to your server.

    Yes, for sure, but right now I think I'm not even going with HipChat...

    @camarg said:
    Hipchat is quite heavy. You'll need at least 4GB of RAM and a good CPU. Don't waste your time trying to host it on anything less than that.

    I would recommend to host it locally first, just to see whether you like it or not.

    I have been evaluating Rocket.Chat, looks better, tho.

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