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 1Ry0VA-0002QS-J7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:31:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD232E0E2B; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:31:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svr-us4.tirtonadi.com (svr-us4.tirtonadi.com [69.65.43.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49053E0BB8 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:30:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f53.google.com ([209.85.215.53]) by svr-us4.tirtonadi.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ry0U0-0047lK-MR for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:30:44 +0700 Received: by lahd3 with SMTP id d3so2661048lah.40 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:30:39 -0800 (PST) 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 Received: by 10.112.86.67 with SMTP id n3mr815981lbz.29.1329395439179; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:30:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.112.38.194 with HTTP; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:30:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.112.38.194 with HTTP; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:30:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4F3CF1A3.6090305@libertytrek.org> References: <877gzn7nt7.fsf@newsguy.com> <4F3CF1A3.6090305@libertytrek.org> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:30:38 +0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Again about a gentoo vm appliance for vbox From: Pandu Poluan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=bcaec554e114eb161d04b913fed4 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - svr-us4.tirtonadi.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - poluan.info X-Archives-Salt: 3bd1c8f4-9ecd-41d5-9224-86e9c63d6c20 X-Archives-Hash: f4f7148c1488adf1952e44bfe143cea2 --bcaec554e114eb161d04b913fed4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Feb 16, 2012 7:12 PM, "Tanstaafl" wrote: > > On 2012-02-15 5:17 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> As you haven't done this recently (I do remember you having troubles a >> while back) I'm not sure what action you are asking me to take here. >> I've built a couple of Gentoo VMs on Virtualbox in the past and they >> both worked fine for me. I've since deleted them as I wasn't using >> them for anything other than seeing if I could make them work, etc. >> >> How can we help? > > > I think that if it is really that easy to build one for someone who knows what they are doing (I'm in a similar boat as Harry, I've tried a few times and couldn't get it to work), it would be great if there was a place for users who feel so inclined to donate VMs that are ready to go... I would love to get a basic Hardened install in a running VM that I could use as a starting point... > > This would also make it really easy for new users to try out gentoo without having to go through all the pain of installing it... > I'll try uploading my "stage3.9" somewhere... it contains *everything* except the functional apps (e.g. database, webserver, etc). The only thing necessary would be to install grub bootloader to the MBR, and reboot. Well, at least that's how I did it in my vSphere infrastructure :-) Rgds, --bcaec554e114eb161d04b913fed4 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


On Feb 16, 2012 7:12 PM, "Tanstaafl" <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org> wrote:
>
> On 2012-02-15 5:17 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> As you haven't done this recently (I do remember you having tr= oubles a
>> while back) I'm not sure what action you are asking me to take= here.
>> I've built a couple of Gentoo VMs on Virtualbox in the past an= d they
>> both worked fine for me. I've since deleted them as I wasn'= ;t using
>> them for anything other than seeing if I could make them work, etc= .
>>
>> How can we help?
>
>
> I think that if it is really that easy to build one for someone who kn= ows what they are doing (I'm in a similar boat as Harry, I've tried= a few times and couldn't get it to work), it would be great if there w= as a place for users who feel so inclined to donate VMs that are ready to g= o... I would love to get a basic Hardened install in a running VM that I co= uld use as a starting point...
>
> This would also make it really easy for new users to try out gentoo wi= thout having to go through all the pain of installing it...
>

I'll try uploading my "stage3.9" somewhere... it contains = *everything* except the functional apps (e.g. database, webserver, etc).

The only thing necessary would be to install grub bootloader to the MBR,= and reboot.

Well, at least that's how I did it in my vSphere infrastructure :-) =

Rgds,

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