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.
next prev 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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