Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo vmware/virtualbox/qemu images

[Mike Doty]

Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 19:01 +0200, Tiziano Müller wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> At the OpenExpo here in Zurich I got many requests for a vmware image of
>> Gentoo. What do you think of providing a "live image" in addition to the
>> minimal- and live-cd's?
>
> Bug #115902
>
> If you can answer the questions in that bug sufficiently, feel free to
> revisit this.  Also, please contact the team that would likely be doing
> all of the work to get this sort of thing done prior to bringing up such
> a proposal, especially when there's already a bug report open for
> it.  ;]
>
> We now have a wonderful x86 Release Coordinator, which was one of the
> blockers in doing a VMware image before.  Of course, there's always the
> "what is Gentoo" question to determine what we would put in a VM.
>
> I don't get this obsession with a "live image" when someone can boot the
> LiveCD/LiveDVD on real hardware *or* in VMware.  They can even boot the
> ISO directly and not even have to burn to disk, so people without a DVD
> burner can still use the LiveDVD.  So exactly what problem are we trying
> to solve with creating an image that cannot be solved with our current
> media?  Where do you plan on storing such a large image?  What other
> media are you planning on us removing to support it?
>
> (By the way, I am planning on adding support for creating VMware images
> to catalyst, so this will eventually be something much easier for us in
> Release Engineering...)
>
The only advantage I see is less than technical people(read windows/osx 
users) who don't know/are afraid of ISOs and such, yet know how to 
operate vmware-player.  Were we to consider "Enterprise Gentoo" we'd 
certainly want to offer it to people interested in gentoo.  Think of it 
more as a marketing tool.

As for what to put on it, liveDVD is the only sane choice.  That said; 
It would be awsome if when catalyst can build vmware images, to make a 
minimal one as well, so groups(maybe xfce4, kde, ....) can make their 
own demos based on that.

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