Installation - rsync from a different distro?

[edooze]

Hi Team,

I have recently purchased a VPS that does not allow custom ISOs, or Open SuSE as an install option. Great move. on my part! So, I'm looking for creative ways to install VICI.

Now, scratch install aside (that may be what I end up doing, onto CentOS 6.5) I'm wondering if rsync would work from a VM? What if I built a VICIbox VM, built the VPS in Ubuntu to get rsync installed, and then rsynced everything to the VPS? I'm guessing I'd have trouble around devices as they may be named different, but this should hopefully only be an issue of naming them correctly under the hood. Right? Either that or I'm showing a fundamental misunderstanding of Linux in general - which I am entirely prepared to accept.

Alternatively, I have just come across mondorescue. What about this option? It says it installs from bare metal. I wouldn't have SSH access, but console (which is as reliable as my Toyota with this provider) might allow me to re-allocate hardware?

Any thoughts appreciated. I've been researching for a while, and a scratch install guide on anything later than Ubuntu 8.04 seems to be lacking. The idea of running a distro that old makes me... nervous.

TIA,
- edooze

[DomeDan]

From what I've read, vicidial does not work well in a virtual envioment but if you still wanna try I suggest a scratch install,
the rsync method does not sound good but you will never know till you tried, but i really thinks it needs to be the same distro
mondorescue, give it a try, if you manage to copy a harddrive clone into the VPS "harddrive" then it might work, dont know.

but a scratch install i think is safest. or you can look into vicihost or justgocloud

[dspaan]

If you ask me all this is not worth it. Just get a dedicated server and install vicibox on it, will save you a lot of time. The time you will have to spend on getting it to work on CentOS will be a lot and you might not even get it to work. Better use that time to earn money and rent a dedicated machine

I have succesfully installed vicibox on a hostvirtual.com VPS which is only $20 a month. But i only used it for testing, not for production. Like Domedan said, it is not recommended to run vicidial on a virtual machine, it even says so in the vicibox install guide.