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From: "Albert W. Hopkins" <marduk@letterboxes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:44:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1322358252.8604.3.camel@stretch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mxbia3pn.fsf@newsguy.com>

On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 17:01 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Creating a gentoo vm has always been a serious pita to me.  I'm sure
> there will be those who claim its `simple'.  
> 
> Simple or not, I want to bypass it if possible.
> 
> So wondering if anyone here has (or has seen) a gentoo (vbox)
> appliance available for download?
> 
> 
I maintain a quasi-daily build of a gentoo virtual appliance.  It should
work with kvm, vmware, and virutalbox (and possibly xen?).

The list of packages installed are:

http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/base-dist-package.lst

The image is at:

http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/base-dist.vmdk.bz2

It's a vmdk but I'm told it works with vbox.

This is just a minimal Gentoo install, I have specialized appliances as
well.







  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-27  1:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-26 23:01 [gentoo-user] Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload Harry Putnam
2011-11-26 23:21 ` Mark Knecht
2011-11-27  1:27 ` James Wall
2011-11-27 10:53   ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2011-11-27  1:44 ` Albert W. Hopkins [this message]
2011-11-27  3:18   ` [gentoo-user] " Vishnupradeep
2011-11-27 12:10     ` Albert W. Hopkins
2011-11-27  3:23   ` Vishnupradeep
2011-11-27 12:10     ` Albert W. Hopkins
2011-11-27 10:52   ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2011-11-27 12:28     ` Albert W. Hopkins
2011-11-27 19:38       ` Harry Putnam
2011-11-27 10:59   ` Harry Putnam

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