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

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> writes:

> On Tuesday, June 28 at 10:57 (-0400), Albert Hopkins said:
>
>> Anyway, I will rebuild an image with AHCI support and upload it
>> shortly.
>
> Done, uploaded to the same place:
>
> http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/base-dist.vmdk.bz2
>
> I also made the image bigger (10GB).  Oddly enough, it compresses
> smaller than the other by a couple of megs.

In case you are interested, I had problems with that appliance.

[I'm running virutal box]

I followed James W's walk thru of how to use it with Virtual box.

There is apparently no `portage' installed which meant that emerge
would fail since /etc/make.profile is a dangling link.  Once that was
resolved I kept getting really strange output from emerge. It appeared
to be the output of something like vmstat or maybe the upper portion
of `top'.  Stuff about user loads and such... right after the first
few lines of emerge output, and nothing was getting emerged.

Very possible it is pilot error; here is what the output of emerging
gpm looks like:

  Calculating dependencies... done!
  [ebuild  N    ] sys-libs/gpm-1.20.6  USE="(-selinux)" 1,251 kB
  
  Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 1,251 kB

  >>> Verifying ebuild manifests
  >>> Emerging (1 of 1) sys-libs/gpm-1.20.6
  >>> Jobs: 0 of 1 complete, 1 running                Load avg: 1.75, 1.16, 0.95

And there it stays... so emerge does not work.

So it appears, so far, the appliance is not usable on Vbox.  

Oh, I'm referring to the 4GB version.  The 10GB version demands a
password so couldn't even start on it.