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Any imap server

I just thought dovecot was the easiest to setup.

So would you be interested in replacing your Fedora VM?

absolutely

How big is it?

let me check

gee .. I've got about 3Gbs of various virtual disks

Server's footprint is 370 MB. I'm also going to produce a trimmed 
version, but that will take a while longer

How big an image do you need?

anything smaller than what I have is good, and a virtual disk that 
can grow

to accomodate the messages

I have to create it at a certain size. The one I have now is 10 GB, 
I believe. Is that enough?

yes!

does it have vmware tools installed?

No. Do you need it?

yes, otherwise the time etc won't keep

well, may not keep

That's running in the guest OS, isn't it? That's not available for 
Server yet

vmware tools run on the vm

I'm not sure it's really necessary. Can't VMware keep the time? It 
has complete control over the guest

to make sure the mouse, and clock work and the video too I think 
.. though that's not so necessary in a non-gui environment

that's the problem I had initially with the first vm I used ... no 
vmware tools installed and so the clock was never right.

There's no mouse :-)

true :)

At least, not in the normal environment. DirectFB and SDL are included, 
but it's basically a console system

I suppose you have the VMware tools? Can you install them on a console 
VM?

yes .. it's all console installation ( compile .. but of course it's 
a perl script! )

Ugh. No Perl on a standard Syllable Server, so you'd have to install 
that, too

Does it compile stuff?

I presume so

I can see how it works without vmware tools ...

If so, you'd have to install the developer packs, too, and the size 
of the thing increases

I'm out of time for working on Syllable, but I'll squeeze some things 
in here and there

I still have to make an emulator image for Server 0.3, so I'll see 
if I can port Dovecot before that

Are you using that VM for anything else but RebelBB?

no...

OK. It may actually be easier for me to produce a highly optimised 
RebelBB appliance :-)

What's the difference?

Size

If I just add RebelBB and Dovecot to the stripped version I was going 
to work on anyway

ok

I hear that Syllable Desktop can run for a week on VMware without 
loosing time, so I don't know what the problem with Fedora is

http://www.djax.co.uk/kb/linux/vmware_clock_drift.html

Another fine mess

We'll have to see how serious the problem is, and if we can correct 
it by using NTP on the Syllable guest

my experience is that minutes are lost over one hour

Nasty

We could run an R/S tunnel that sets the guest clock every minute 
from the host clock :-)

I was doing that

Oh, cool. Didn't it work?