Scalix in a Xen Domain

[pr3d]

Hello,

me and a friend of mine have managed to set up a scalix environment in a Xen subdomain, so its running on a FC4 domain, the Xen0 domain is Debian. We wrote a small howto about that. It's running problemless for about a couple of months now.

Would that be of any interest if i post it here? Does somebody want to do the same thing?

At the moment the documentation is only in german, but i could give it a try and translate the whole thing into english.

Please give me some feedback about my idea if you are interested in setting up such a system. Or is there already such a doc on the web or scalix knowledgebase?


Cya, pr3d.

[florian]

I've heard stories about people using Scalix under Xen, but haven't tried myself or done a completewriteup.

If you don't mind - I think posting it to the Scalix Wiki (www.scalix.com/wiki) under the HowTos section would be most useful. English as a language is preferred!

Cheers, thanks,
Florian.

[neronsp]

we've done the same thing... and we're using the distro.

Assuming you've already have XEN working and its best to use XEN on a LVM fs and the xendomain for the Scalix is mail.

What I did was just download a FC4 xen image available on the net.

Mount the xen logical volume for the FC4, assuming its /dev/xendomains/mail
be sure its formatted before you mount it

e.g.
mount /dev/xendomains/mail /target

Mount that FC4 xen image (e.g. mount -o loop fc4.img /source)
then just copy paste the files from source to target.

Now that you've got the FC4 image on the proper xen lv for xendomain.

After this step. You need to install the updates first just to be sure. I've tried this nothing broke.

now boot your mail xendomain
e.g.
xm create mail

then go to your xen mail console
xm console mail

Now install scalix from there. Once you've done the installation part. Follow exactly whats said on the Wiki for SA, Amavis, Amavis-milter, & Clamav.

If incase if you're going to use a mail client like thunderbird. Be sure to edit ~/sys/smtp.cfg and another RELAY.

eg.
## Add relay for 192.168.2.0/24 network
RELAY 192.168.2.0 / 255.255.255.0

If you need further assistance let me know. We've also done Samba+Ldap+Scalix integration.

[florian]

Would you be willing to post this as an initial instructions piece under www.scalix.com/wiki in the HowTos sections?

Cheers,
Florian.

[neronsp]

sure

[pdumaresq]

I am using Scalix 11 since Beta1 version un XEN subdomain without any problem (with 15 users as a test servers)

Last week my actual Exchange server stop to works for 2 days. I was very lucky to have my Scalix running as a test servers. It took care of our emails for those 2 days without any problem (only for urgents emails/ 25 users) So I decide to go in production in January with all other users around 150 with Small business or Enterprise edition.

I use SLES 10 that include XEN VM managing and Kernel in the box (from Novell)

I am intersted to know if other using XEN for Scalix