https://github.com/thbar/redis-windows
Initial spec work to provide a way to run Redis on Windows
https://github.com/thbar/redis-windows
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Initial spec work to provide a way to run Redis on Windows
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/thbar/redis-windows
- Owner: thbar
- Created: 2012-02-26T08:57:52.000Z (over 14 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2012-02-26T09:12:40.000Z (over 14 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-22T18:11:23.752Z (over 1 year ago)
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- Size: 93.8 KB
- Stars: 2
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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### What's here?
Status: laying down a couple of ideas on a different approach to get Redis running on Windows.
I got this idea the other day: instead of porting Redis to Windows (which I'd still like to see), why not providing an automated way to install a virtual machine on Windows, which would itself run as a service and would run Redis on a Linux lightweight OS?
### Rough draft of how it could work
For instance we could have some kind of installer which would:
- install VirtualBox unless it's already there
- create a virtual machine and install a lightweight Linux OS
- bootstrap the virtual machine for chef maybe
- install redis
- ensure the virtual machine run with port-forwarding enabled for seamless access
At some point I would split the different parts so that people not using VirtualBox can still use this in some way (ie: VMWare...)
### Things to figure out
- my Linux of choice is Ubuntu, yet I'd like to provide a very small OS by default so the install is faster. Which OS can be a good fit here?
- is Vagrant + chef-solo a good fit?
- msi or not msi?
- how to run a VirtualBox instance as a service?
- will it blend?