[gentoo-dev] gentoo KVM images now available :)

[gentoo-dev] gentoo KVM images now available :)

[alex.alexander]

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Hello :)

I've created some KVM images to aid Gentoo Developers and
the KDE herd in ebuild development and maintainance.

Two images are currently available: [1]
an X-less ~x86 with various tools preinstalled [like layman]
and
a copy of the first ~x86 with kdebase-meta[kdeprefix] and a
few other packages installed on top of it

The portage tree is in a separate image, along with binary
packages of most stuff installed in the two images.
(a bz2 of the tree is in /usr just in case)

The images are available at dev.gentooexperimental.org [1].
Please read the README [2] for instructions and more information :)

An image with -kdeprefix kde is also en route.

I would really appreciate feedback on the images:
* things you liked
* things missing
* things you'd do differently
either through these mailing lists or in freenode/#gentoo-kde
so I can make future revisions better and more useful!

Regards,
Alex Alexander (wired)
Gentoo KDE Team Herd Tester

[1] http://dev.gentooexperimental.org/~wired/kvm/
[2] http://dev.gentooexperimental.org/~wired/kvm/README.txt

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Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo KVM images now available :)

[Donnie Berkholz]

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On 15:53 Fri 13 Mar     , alex.alexander@gmail.com wrote:
> I've created some KVM images to aid Gentoo Developers and
> the KDE herd in ebuild development and maintainance.

> I would really appreciate feedback on the images:
> * things you liked
> * things missing
> * things you'd do differently
> either through these mailing lists or in freenode/#gentoo-kde
> so I can make future revisions better and more useful!

Cool! How did you make these? Can you make them with Catalyst?

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com

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Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo KVM images now available :)

[Tomáš Chvátal]

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Dne pátek 13 Březen 2009 19:19:00 Donnie Berkholz napsal(a):
> Cool! How did you make these? Can you make them with Catalyst?
Actualy i think alex did them as normal gentoo instalation :]. But instead of 
installing onto normal pc he installed into kvm image.

When i tried catalyst few months back it was quite broken for few cases it is 
working fine nowdays? (No flame please i will be really happy to hear that 
catalyst is nowdays robust and working as expected.)

Tomas

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Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo KVM images now available :)

[Robin H. Johnson]

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On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 07:22:05PM +0100, Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
> When i tried catalyst few months back it was quite broken for few cases it is 
> working fine nowdays? (No flame please i will be really happy to hear that 
> catalyst is nowdays robust and working as expected.)
If you can break it while not feeding it garbage (GIGO applies
otherwise), then I think releng would like to hear from you, since it's
running near daily on some releng box for the autobuilds that have been
going out for a couple of months now.

-- 
Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy
E-Mail     : robbat2@gentoo.org
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Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo KVM images now available :)

[Alex Alexander]

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Thomas nailed it, I created the clean one from scratch, then cp'd it and created the kde one on top of it.

More/updated images will pop up sooner or later too =]

--
| Alex Alexander (wired)
| Gentoo KDE Team Herd Tester
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| Gentoo'd :: http://linuxized.blogspot.com
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On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 20:19, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 15:53 Fri 13 Mar     , alex.alexander@gmail.com wrote:
>> I've created some KVM images to aid Gentoo Developers and
>> the KDE herd in ebuild development and maintainance.
>
>> I would really appreciate feedback on the images:
>> * things you liked
>> * things missing
>> * things you'd do differently
>> either through these mailing lists or in freenode/#gentoo-kde
>> so I can make future revisions better and more useful!
>
> Cool! How did you make these? Can you make them with Catalyst?
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Donnie
>
> Donnie Berkholz
> Developer, Gentoo Linux
> Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
>


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Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo KVM images now available :)

[Jeremy Olexa]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:53 AM,  <alex.alexander@gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>

Hi,
I already posted some initial images on tinderbox.

http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/virtualization/amd64/

Some weeks old by now. But I am fairly confident that image building
can be made automatic via scripting. Granted, I did not make an
announcement of my latest images just the old ones[1], it is just a
pet project for me in its current state. It is extremely easy to make
a new image for others with the weekly automated builds now.

-Jeremy

[1]: http://blog.jolexa.net/2008/11/14/on-virtualization/