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[50.92.204.45]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id b90sm17011092pfc.29.2016.08.20.19.53.51 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 20 Aug 2016 19:53:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Creating development virtual machine References: <36cb7e6d-4b53-2840-5baa-f2b987141593@gentoo.org> Message-ID: <5c192522-25f6-2807-e657-7582b7c75416@datsemultimedia.com> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 19:53:42 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <36cb7e6d-4b53-2840-5baa-f2b987141593@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jPfP4LF9swhCLIgXrbASRFxqR6R6CQLLv" X-Archives-Salt: 9bb73890-d06f-4937-89f2-33f23bdc95da X-Archives-Hash: 6d61e1814a362b694ef1ef11d364b4d4 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --jPfP4LF9swhCLIgXrbASRFxqR6R6CQLLv Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="gs8QeqhgpEUPnPLUvEdE5tlm5p3DJEcPQ" From: Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: <5c192522-25f6-2807-e657-7582b7c75416@datsemultimedia.com> --gs8QeqhgpEUPnPLUvEdE5tlm5p3DJEcPQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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.=20 I will likely (after that has been managed) be looking at the Matrix Prot= ocol starting with the synapse homeserver and the vector web client.=20 For these, the development effort that *I* intend to be making would be t= o get it so that the install on gentoo will work correctly through portag= e.=20 I believe that I would have to end up being on the "official gentoo devel= opment" so as to be able to handle issues through gentoo supported tools.= =20 Thank you very much.=20 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 s= ee > > 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 easie= r > > (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 mor= e > 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. > --=20 Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku jigme.datse@datsemultimedia.com (Preferred address for new messages) 250-505-6117 Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku PO Box 270 Rossland, BC V0G 1Y0 Canada =2E......................................................................= =2E.. This message should be electronically signed, and if the sender ...= =2E.. has your public key, may also be encrypted. ... =2E.. If you have any questions about this, please email, or call. ... =2E.. ... =2E.. Note, unknown calls likely will go to voicemail. ... =2E.. 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