I think you pointed me in a direction I am quite happy to go in.

My current development project is getting LedgerSMB to install on a more or less bare (Stage3?) Gentoo system. 

I will likely (after that has been managed) be looking at the Matrix Protocol starting with the synapse homeserver and the vector web client. 

For these, the development effort that *I* intend to be making would be to get it so that the install on gentoo will work correctly through portage. 

I believe that I would have to end up being on the "official gentoo development" so as to be able to handle issues through gentoo supported tools. 

Thank you very much. 

On 2016-08-20 17:15, Daniel Campbell wrote:
> On 08/20/2016 04:56 PM, Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku wrote:
> > I am looking to create a virtual machine which I can use to test to see
> > about my development efforts (currently with LedgerSMB) and getting
> > appropriate ebuild files created on a base install.  I currently have no
> > virtualization software installed on the main development machine, so
> > that is as of now, largely irrelevant, but in the future I would like to
> > have the possibility of hosting my built boxes "in the cloud" so if
> > there is any virtualization system which likely would make that easier
> > (or at least not more difficult) that may be a factor.
> >
> > Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku
> >
>
> As many would likely tell you, it depends on what sort of development
> you intend on doing.
>
> To start, I suggest qemu and KVM. They're libre software and there's a
> GUI frontend if you don't feel like manual configuration or shell
> scripting. I've used it to build a completely free/libre Gentoo
> installation, which I intend to use on a laptop in the future.
>
> Our wiki has some decent pages on qemu and KVM. If the image files are
> the correct format (I'm not sure what format cloud providers prefer),
> they should work just fine. I would focus on using the correct image
> format and then building what some call a stage4. I think there are more
> tools for creating stage4s, but ultimately that's what you and I both
> are looking at: ready-to-go Gentoo installs that come with some needed
> software.
>

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