Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:

Hi

Sorry for the silly question, but is it safe to build packages, like rpms, in virtual machines (virtualbox) and use this packages in real machines? Some of these machines are CentOS and others ares Opensuse.

I do it all the time, a couple of (Xen) VMs packed out with devel RPMs, and use the finished RPMs in production servers. No problems observed. -Alan

Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:

Sorry for the silly question, but is it safe to build packages, like rpms, in virtual machines (virtualbox) and use this packages in real machines? Some of these machines are CentOS and others ares Opensuse.

It's actually recommended to do it that way. :-)

At Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:57:23 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:

Hi

Sorry for the silly question, but is it safe to build packages, like rpms, in virtual machines (virtualbox) and use this packages in real machines? Some of these machines are CentOS and others ares Opensuse.

I need to build (or would be very useful to have) Ganglia 3.1.x

It is as safe as building the rpms on real machines. A virtual machine is really just as 'real' as a real machine, as far as the software running on it goes. Virtualization is really just a hardware 'feature' -- that is, virtualization is effectively only a different flavor of hardware, where the hardware is virtual (hardware 'emulated' in software on the host system).

Thanks

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