On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Albert W. Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> wrote:

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.