Running Clear Linux in Vultr VPS
by José L Duarte
Hi all,
Clear Linux is awesome and I'd like to run it in a generic VPS such as
those offered by Vultr. Is this not supported? When I
run clear-linux-check-config.sh in a Vultr VPS, all checks succeed except
for the final check on EFI firmware. Does it need this if it's running in a
VM?
The Vultr instances support AVX2 and BMI CPU instructions (they must be
Haswell, not Broadwell, because they don't support RDSEED), so we're good
on thr CPU side.
When I contacted Vultr about installing Clear Linux and showed them the
project-provided KVM starter script, they said:
"The script you've linked appears to be geared toward a user with bare
metal access to a KVM hypervisor. In this case I would recommend seeing if
a standard installer ISO is available as we will not be able to install
from a pre-existing VM container."
Can we get support for using VPSes like Vultr's? I'd very much like to use
Clear Linux for my web servers, benchmark it, and write about it. Vultr is
a lot like DigitalOcean, but they let you install your own ISOs (relatedly,
it will also help to have URLs to Clear Linux installer ISOs, not just the
xz and gz compressed img files that are currently available – Vultr and
similar VPS providers need a pure ISO build.)
Thanks,
Joe Duarte
5 years, 9 months
