At Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:57:23 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos at 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 > > Marcelo > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/