[gentoo-user] Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload

[gentoo-user] Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload

[Harry Putnam]

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?

Re: [gentoo-user] Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload

[Mark Knecht]

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> 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?
>
>
>

They are out there but my experience is they are generally sort of old
and unmaintained. Being a Gentoo user you know a Gentoo machine with
no updates for a year is almost useless in terms of moving forward.

Anyway, here's one I found in Google:

http://virtualboxes.org/images/gentoo/

HTH,
Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload

[James Wall]

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> 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?
>
>
>

From an earlier thread about virtual machine images the link is here:
the thread is titled  [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/base.vmdk

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Re: [gentoo-user] Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload

[Albert W. Hopkins]

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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload

[Vishnupradeep]

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Albert W. Hopkins, is that 64bit or 32bit ?


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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.
>
>
>
>
>
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload

[Vishnupradeep]

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Need login details.

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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.
>
>
>
>
>
>

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[gentoo-user] Re: Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload

[Harry Putnam]

"Albert W. Hopkins" <marduk@letterboxes.org> writes:

> 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?).

Albert, I cloned your hg repo and tried to build from it, but it fails
at downloading gentoo-sources.  Something about not being able to
resolve the kernel URLS.

I suspect it is a problem in the ebuild itself, but I was not able to
find where `portage' is on disc during that build.  I wanted to
attempt editing the ebuild but even with variable:
  REMOVE_PORTAGE_TREE NO
I never find a `portage' directory.

Once the build fails, their is no `portage' directory containing the
tree.

In virtual-appliance:

  find . -type d -name 'portage'
  ./vabuild/var/lib/portage
  ./vabuild/var/log/portage
  ./vabuild/var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage
  ./vabuild/usr/lib/portage
  ./vabuild/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage

None of those contain the tree.

Here is tail of `sudo make'

,----
| Resolving www.fr.kernel.org... failed: Name or service not known.
| wget: unable to resolve host address “www.fr.kernel.org”
| >>> Downloading 'http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.1.tar.bz2'
| --2011-11-27 04:24:43--  http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.1.tar.bz2
| Resolving www.us.kernel.org... failed: Name or service not known.
| wget: unable to resolve host address “www.us.kernel.org”
| !!! Couldn't download 'linux-3.1.tar.bz2'. Aborting.
|  * Fetch failed for 'sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.1.1', Log file:
|  *  '/var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.1.1/temp/build.log'
| 
|  * Messages for package sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.1.1:
| 
|  * Fetch failed for 'sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.1.1', Log file:
|  *  '/var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.1.1/temp/build.log'
`----

I cannot ping any of those kernel urls.  But kernel.org appears up

   ping kernel.org
  PING kernel.org (149.20.4.69) 56(84) bytes of data.
  64 bytes from pub2.kernel.org (149.20.4.69): icmp_req=1 ttl=55 time=87.5 ms


  ls vabuild/var/tmp/
  <empty>
  Apparently umounted or rm'd

How to keep working portage tree accessible.

I monkeyed around with your Makefile but couldn't follow it well
enough to stop the umounting.

[gentoo-user] Re: Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload

[Harry Putnam]

James Wall <wallservices@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>
> From an earlier thread about virtual machine images the link is here:
> the thread is titled  [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
> http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/base.vmdk

That 404s for me.

[gentoo-user] Re: Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload

[Harry Putnam]

"Albert W. Hopkins" <marduk@letterboxes.org> writes:

> This is just a minimal Gentoo install, I have specialized appliances as
> well.

where?

Re: [gentoo-user] Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload

[Albert W. Hopkins]

On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 08:48 +0530, Vishnupradeep wrote:
> Albert W. Hopkins, is that 64bit or 32bit ?

It si 64-bit.  Though conceivably the build process could build 32-bit
appliances, I haven't yet tried it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload

[Albert W. Hopkins]

On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 08:53 +0530, Vishnupradeep wrote:
> Need login details.

There are none.  When you first log in (as root) you are forced to set a
password.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload

[Albert W. Hopkins]

On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 04:52 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Albert, I cloned your hg repo and tried to build from it, but it fails
> at downloading gentoo-sources.  Something about not being able to
> resolve the kernel URLS.
> 
> I suspect it is a problem in the ebuild itself, but I was not able to
> find where `portage' is on disc during that build.  I wanted to
> attempt editing the ebuild but even with variable:
>   REMOVE_PORTAGE_TREE NO
> I never find a `portage' directory. 

It grabs the sources from wherever they are specified (SRC_URI) in the
ebuild.

I just tried it and it worked for me:

virtual-appliance # emerge --fetchonly gentoo-sources
Calculating dependencies... done!

>>> Fetching (1 of 1) sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.0.6
>>> Downloading
'http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/linux-3.0.tar.bz2'
--2011-11-27 12:15:37--
http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/linux-3.0.tar.bz2
Resolving distfiles.gentoo.org... 216.165.129.135, 64.50.233.100,
64.50.236.52, ...
Connecting to distfiles.gentoo.org|216.165.129.135|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 76753134 (73M) [application/x-tar]
Saving to: `/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-3.0.tar.bz2'

100%[======================================>] 76,753,134   523K/s   in
49s

The portage tree itself (should be) in the chroot directory.  The build
will download the latest snapshot and unpack it in the chroot.
Although, I did just try that and am getting failures.  It seems the
latest portage snapshot is currupt?

virtual-appliance # make portage
rsync --no-motd -L
rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo/snapshots/portage-latest.tar.bz2
portage-latest.tar.bz2
touch sync_portage
mkdir -p /root/virtual-appliance/vabuild
tar xjpf "stage4/base-stage4.tar.bz2" -C /root/virtual-appliance/vabuild
touch stage3
tar xjf portage-latest.tar.bz2 -C /root/virtual-appliance/vabuild/usr
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
make: *** [portage] Error 2

Anyone else getting this?

[gentoo-user] Re: Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload

[Harry Putnam]

"Albert W. Hopkins" <marduk@letterboxes.org> writes:

> On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 04:52 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Albert, I cloned your hg repo and tried to build from it, but it fails
>> at downloading gentoo-sources.  Something about not being able to
>> resolve the kernel URLS.
>> 
>> I suspect it is a problem in the ebuild itself, but I was not able to
>> find where `portage' is on disc during that build.  I wanted to
>> attempt editing the ebuild but even with variable:
>>   REMOVE_PORTAGE_TREE NO
>> I never find a `portage' directory. 
>
> It grabs the sources from wherever they are specified (SRC_URI) in the
> ebuild.
>
> I just tried it and it worked for me:
>
> virtual-appliance # emerge --fetchonly gentoo-sources
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>
>>>> Fetching (1 of 1) sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.0.6
>>>> Downloading
> 'http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/linux-3.0.tar.bz2'
> --2011-11-27 12:15:37--
> http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/linux-3.0.tar.bz2
> Resolving distfiles.gentoo.org... 216.165.129.135, 64.50.233.100,
> 64.50.236.52, ...
> Connecting to distfiles.gentoo.org|216.165.129.135|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 76753134 (73M) [application/x-tar]
> Saving to: `/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-3.0.tar.bz2'
>
> 100%[======================================>] 76,753,134   523K/s   in
> 49s
-------        ---------       ---=---       ---------      -------- 
-------        ---------       ---=---       ---------      --------

You messages have completely different urls.  Yours in connecting to 
'http://distfiles.gentoo.org

Mine is connecting to several differnt versions of kernel.org
,----
| Resolving www.fr.kernel.org... failed: Name or service not known.
| wget: unable to resolve host address “www.fr.kernel.org”
| >>> Downloading 'http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.1.tar.bz2'
| --2011-11-27 04:24:43--  http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.1.tar.bz2
| Resolving www.us.kernel.org... failed: Name or service not known.
| wget: unable to resolve host address “www.us.kernel.org”
| !!! Couldn't download 'linux-3.1.tar.bz2'. Aborting.
|  * Fetch failed for 'sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.1.1', Log file:
|  *  '/var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.1.1/temp/build.log'

[...]

Why is that?  I cannot ping any of the urls in that message yet
`kernel.org' is definitely up.

> The portage tree itself (should be) in the chroot directory.  The build
> will download the latest snapshot and unpack it in the chroot.
> Although, I did just try that and am getting failures.  It seems the
> latest portage snapshot is currupt?

I had no problem getting portage, the tar ball, but it never appears
to be accessible in chroot.  You mean chroot = vabuild/usr/portage by 
default right?

At any rate, I guess you are not maintaining things at the repo eh?