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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload
From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
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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. =C2=A0I'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