/prog/ - Deploying on virtual machines

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 11:38

Hi!

I was wondering what are /prog/'s opinion on deploying on a VMWare image instead of an installer.

That's because i have a small app developed on Linux+Perl+PostgreSQL. The issue is that most customers does not have Linux installed, only Windows machines. So, i want to make the deployment on a VM and running on VMWare Player.

Memory is not such an issue because with 256MB of ram my app runs fine.

Also, there is the issue of security. I don't want anyone to just copy the Virtual Machine and take it home, so i guess it must be encrypted someway.

Thanks, /prog/!

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 12:15

That is an unexpected way of adding hundreds or thousands of megabytes of bloat to your shitty desktop app without achieving anything of value.

2 gigabyte hello world, can you beat that?

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 12:16

Also, there is the issue of security. I don't want anyone to just copy the Virtual Machine and take it home, so i guess it must be encrypted someway.
As if somebody actually wants your VIP quality app.

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 12:27

Stop being a /g/ retard and use Windows.

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 12:32

cygwin

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 12:39

is not really a desktop app. It's a service.

Name: OP 2012-06-26 12:47

A specialized hardware device collects data. The devices send the data to my service, then at the end of the day all services syncronize to a central server.

There are many devices (at least 10) in each installation. The clients are schools. Most of them don't want to install new computers. So i was thinking why not just distribute virtual machines so they can use existing hardware.

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 12:56

you are retarded

Name: FFP 2012-06-26 12:56

kill yourself OP, you are an idiot.

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 12:58

back to /g/, ``faggot''

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 13:00

>>8,9
I know, but i want technical arguments, plz

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 13:16

>>11
nice dubz op

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 13:24

Force you clients to switch to Linux. Windows is dying, Microsoft is giving up on desktop Windows.

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 16:49

Ignore >>9 she's on her .

Name: FFP 2012-06-26 17:39

>>14
fuck you sexist pig.

Name: OP 2012-06-26 17:41

so, any technical opinions on why is deployment on VM considered harmful?

(besides the obvious bloat, of course)

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 18:04

>>15
Never heard of the shift key, Fembot-3000?

Name: FFP 2012-06-26 19:44

>>17
NEVER HEARD OF IT. EVER HEARD OF THE ,,ANY KEY'', FAGGOTRON?

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 19:47

>>18
There is no any key.

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 19:48

>>18
Ooh, someone's getting pissy. How about you go play hide and go fuck yourself?

Name: FFP 2012-06-26 19:49

>>19
maybe not in your keyboard, there sure is in mine, ,, faggot '' .

Name: FFP 2012-06-26 19:50

>>20
afraid of empowered women, sexist pig?

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 19:54

>>22
implying

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 19:54

>>22
Oh that's so adorable, she just called herself empowered. Sure, Internet empowers you to annoy people with your idiocy. But it also empowers me to tell you to go back to the kitchen, to make yourself a cyanide-laced sandwich and to eat it.

Name: FFP 2012-06-26 19:57

>>24
You go back to your mother's basement... oh wait, you are there already.

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 20:00

>>25
D'aww, this is so cute. She ran out of arguments (as if she ever had any) so she proceeds to the game of ad hominem battleship.

Name: FFP 2012-06-26 20:09

>>26
I think everyone here knows my arguments are always correct.

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 20:11

>>27
So it is true. You are everyone!

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 20:11

>>27
Ah, the classical argumentum ad populum (leaving aside that you are far from having proven that the majority of proglodytes think you are always correct). Unfortunately for your logical Highness, it is a well-known fallacy.

Name: FFP 2012-06-26 20:14

>>29
Oh look, a philosopher!
No surprise you are a sexist pig, your leader Aristotle was one, too.

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 20:17

>>30
(and (sexist? Aristotle) (philosopher? Aristotle) (philosopher? X)) => (sexist? X)
_{That is, leaving aside the fact that you have yet to prove that I am a philosopher.}

You should be ashamed of your idiocy.

Name: FFP 2012-06-26 20:27

>>31
I don't have to prove what is evident to everyone but you.

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 20:37

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>>>>>>>

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 20:52

>>32
FUCK OFF AND DIE

Name: FFP -- Femist programming 4evr 2012-06-26 20:59

>>34
No.

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 21:27

>>35
http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1340740779/27-34

Name: FFP 2012-06-26 21:31

>>36
just spam, it wasn't me.

WYPMP

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 21:48

>>1
Maybe use QEMU, but modified to support encrypted disk images that require you to supply the key for, which is node-locked via hardware hash to the computer that the virtual machine is running on.

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 22:26

>>1
force linux onto their stupid asses.

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 22:49

>>39
Never. Linux means the freedom to choose freedom, not a military-style dictatorship.

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 22:51

>>40
If you are a software contractor, you may impose whatever bondage upon your customer. Not only is it legal, it is best practices.

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 23:14

>>41
If you are a customer, you are free to swim in the lake

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-26 23:54

ill port it to windows for you for 49% of the profit.

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-27 0:02

"soon we'll reproduce without you and eliminate you completely." --FFP

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-27 0:05

Statically link Virtualbox and Busybox

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-27 8:07

>>43 thus you'll do it for free

Name: bampu pantsu 2012-07-06 5:05

bampu pantsu

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-06 15:00

Fuck you OP, and every other shithead who installs a whole VM just to run a small service or program. It's pure idiocy.

Bare metal hardware or nothing.

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-07 9:15

>>48
SADLY, NOT EVERYONE WANTS TO INSTALL LUNIX IN THEIR NETWORKS. THANKFULLY THAT DOES NOT MEAN YOU HAVE TO DEVELOP FOR WINBLOWS YOURSELF

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