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Hi, |
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This summer I'm working with the Gentoo project to create a web-based |
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virtual machine building tool, Gentoaster. Gentoaster provides an |
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online wizard that allows you to customise a virtual machine, and then |
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have it added to a queue of machines to be built. Once it's been |
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processed and built, you'll be able to download your VM image in the |
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format requested and boot it up straight away. |
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In the first week I've been working on the build tool itself, which is |
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a CLI application which takes a build configuration file and produces |
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the virtual machine image. In the past week I've been building a |
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script that builds a VM, and currently I have the following complete: |
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- Disk image creation |
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- Partitioning |
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- Filesystem creation |
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- Stage3 and Portage install |
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- Username and passwords setup |
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Currently I'm trying to get the bootloader installation working, which |
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proved difficult in the virtualised environment I'm working in. |
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Transferring all my progress and setting up a new machine to work on |
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has delayed me slightly, so I'm slightly behind schedule, but I |
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anticipate I'll be back on track by the end of this coming week. This |
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week I'll be working on: |
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- Getting bootloader installation working |
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- Adding custom package installation parameters |
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- Adding package group installation support |
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- Improving container format support, currently VirtualBox VDI images |
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are outputted but I'll add support for VMWare and QEMU amongst others |
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very soon |
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Code isn't available on Git yet, only just got access to the Gentoo |
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infrastructure today so I'll get everything uploaded this week once |
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things are tidied up. |
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Thanks, |
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Liam |
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