From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QZXYF-0002lT-OP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:13:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4ECAD1C003; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:11:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com (out3.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D4A91C003 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:11:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.46]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDFF121224 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:11:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:11:56 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=subject:from:to:date:in-reply-to:references:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:mime-version; s=smtpout; bh=WFyvEt7BcyOtY49ghT0neEGJmtE=; b=tN5ocRTCtmCH1AExGoKeLNUFD5m+wG4sJMaY4dnq0BEJljfkM7F7UIKnqPfdu2zKNn9qj0aCq4DrPpGYmAKWll3KJRmbuZXELggKTMYjWrC0977twxbUAMO+5XMuQeCr3YL5NO39Bj317dpeuMa/eSahmqAI9aeQA+MofxmRxVA= X-Sasl-enc: QTbpDB4bbonlGLAEAcB7tgZEOtafLRHu9FLNs7+NcMzc 1308787916 Received: from [192.168.31.28] (cpe-174-109-037-078.nc.res.rr.com [174.109.37.78]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8197C441432 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:11:56 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:11:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87k4cdcz55.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87k4cdcz55.fsf@newsguy.com> Face: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1308787916.71397.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 45ef998a2785dcd5e38bed44e08c5e9c On Wednesday, June 22 at 16:52 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: > The times I've tried to get a recent gentoo version running in a vm on > windows turned out to be labor taking days to get right. > > Does anyone know if there is a fairly current gentoo appliance > somewhere that I can just install and then update or customize? > > I'd prefer to run it with vbox but if the appliance is vmware created > that's ok too. I do have a license up to 6.5. > > If that isn't available maybe someone has a fairly current kernel > config that is known to boot on a windows host with guest gentoo. > > As I recall from my efforts, there were always problems with something > to do with scuzzi drivers or whatnot. I have a program that I use to create Gentoo VM appliances. I have no idea if it works with vbox or vmware as I run KVM, but I think it *should* work. Anyway if you want to try it you can or, if you want, it also builds stage4 tarballs, so I can build you a stage4 tarball of a base Gentoo install pretty easily (including kernel). The stage4 (excluding portage) would be ~90MB (bz2). The disk image (compressed QCOW is about 120MB).