Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

[Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>]

On Thursday, June 23 at 12:32 (-0400), Matthew Finkel said:

> On 06/23/11 07:15, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> >
> > On Thursday, June 23 at 00:35 (-0400), Matthew Finkel said:
> >
> >> Oh, don't get me wrong, that's one reason I use qcow2 myself, but it's
> >> either something he would have to deal with when he received it or the
> >> conversion would increase the size of the disk image that would be
> >> shipped to him.
> > Yes, of course a raw image file will typically be bigger than a
> > compressed qcow, just as an unpacked stage4..tar.bz2 file is going to be
> > bigger than the original archive.  But in terms transferability,
> > compressed qcows are more efficient since they only include *used*
> > blocks and they are compressed.  I can convert the image into any of a
> > number of formats, but the issue then is it will be bigger, and thus
> > take me longer to upload it and the OP to download it
> Yup, exactly :-)
> 

I've uploaded a (390MB) vmdk.  I've been told by someone that it works
with vmware (not sure what version).

This was build just a few minutes ago with the latest stage3 tarball and
the latest portage snapshot.

http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/base.vmdk

The root password is blank. It will force you to change it on first
login.