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 1QZenU-0001ED-2M for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:57:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 72E761C07B; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:54:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.166]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 271A91C07B for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:54:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.151] (helo=smtp19.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZejy-00029l-EP for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:54:18 +0200 Received: from 5353c717.cm-6-4d.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([83.83.199.23] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp19.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZejx-0004SX-Lq for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:54:17 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E0AB29F5 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:54:24 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ZhUtuZ31kH8t for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:54:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3D0664BC for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:54:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Joost Roeleveld To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:54:16 +0200 Message-ID: <48478426.vrnISNt4Jx@eve> User-Agent: KMail/4.6 beta5 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1QZejx-0004SX-Lq X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-0.928, vereist 5, BAYES_00 -1.90, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.01) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 68f16118781154f97902a692a4f5fb51 On Thursday 23 June 2011 08:16:33 Pandu Poluan wrote: > -original message- > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance > From: Albert Hopkins > Date: 2011-06-23 07:11 > > >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). > > Any such program to build XenServer appliances (.xva) ? Shouldn't it work similarly? Eg. start an appliance and install using the stage4? I use Xen directly and as long as I can create and fill the partitions for the VM, any "creation" tool should work. -- Joost