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 1QZYnH-0007Du-2p for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 01:33:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B35131C096; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 01:31:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F5351C096 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 01:31:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws13 with SMTP id 13so1257661vws.40 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:31:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:disposition-notification-to:date :from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=XVNJixVkRdAhpAhxv3IaMeouIcbsErIhvrOu4K5a5h4=; b=fRCE+Z2oTIH+xwkeKH4ULby6Gor6ofiJVFqPQ6hpUj6t+NjKXMvqwyMARJgtmxAKMv 8QNzjSMS4ngRPyPfZS8PYIK3yw+iYZo14+zUSHoWbACyIlkxm36cmNwXYkGGDuol16X7 NHM4At7GcULEykc8S6xdgRLzlcpfMZ8ZK1DUg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:disposition-notification-to:date:from:user-agent :mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version :openpgp:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=K3z/zjwSsDyL7antFv++GmMMUXaYA5ikFkr/uNzyy6lJft5fPbXvfXpmNbdjus9xQC HiRnjWUkuCk+CeuFzJNiFxgrQS7tEgaopGW3tM/YqPI300f0QmWOkvMD/uQt8YrkWK46 i5WJsaKmd4zITjmewrH347Mb+srqGLZSZ8DS0= Received: by 10.220.131.68 with SMTP id w4mr528492vcs.113.1308792697632; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:31:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.25] (ool-44c64caa.dyn.optonline.net [68.198.76.170]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m9sm157039vcv.16.2011.06.22.18.31.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:31:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E029765.9060903@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:31:17 -0400 From: Matthew Finkel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110531 Thunderbird/3.1.10 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance References: <87k4cdcz55.fsf@newsguy.com> <1308787916.71397.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1308787916.71397.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=A946BBCF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: c6a61f09eca8871313aa535a7eba7431 On 06/22/11 20:11, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > 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) The only issue with qcow2 is that in order to use it with VB, IIRC you need to convert it to raw before you can import it.