fellow patrons, i am moving my company's in house platforms off of a mix of deprecated soft virtualization solutions like openvz and bare metal installs -- i have decided on using libvirt + kvm (in conjunction with cgroups for qemu and possibly other uses). i'm trying to use Arch for the host/hypervisor setups, for a couple reasons: ) very easy to roll custom initramfs builds ) shooting for a < 128MB 100% in-RAM diskless image (RHEV-H or ESXi) ) host is changed infrequently, and all-at-once (no need for ongoing/stable repo support) ) i'm very familiar with Arch's initramfs setup, and with Arch in general the other possibility i'm considering is Gentoo, but it's been quite some time since i've used it :-/. neither arch nor gentoo will be used for guests (likely debian/ubuntu here). does anyone have any experience/insight here? the comparable technology for RHEV-H for redhat, or ESXi for vmware. i am looking into the `archboot` setup for inspiration on a custom initramfs build system. primarily i'm just look for any pointers/information anyone may find useful, not only on the image itself but also management and configuration techniques. thanks, C Anthony