Installing a copy of Ubuntu Linux on Parallels. It’s all going smooth – 520 MB of RAM assigned to it, selected the LAMP and DNS package sets to install. Seems to be a slick and effiecent setup, other than the fact that it “figured out” where I live by the language I speak and the keyboard layout I use, and it won’t let me pick Asia/Dubai as a time zone. Errgh.

Apart from that, the install is going well. I’ve got my FakeThumper setup, and after I get DNS straightened out, I’m going to setup NFS shares for everything. Going to try to have as little as possible on the virtual HD of the Ubuntu install – instead have it on a snapshotting ZFS volume. This should be… interesting.

UPDATE: This will help make it all work when installing ubuntu-server on Parallels.