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From: Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku <jigme.datse@×××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Creating development virtual machine
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 02:54:07
Message-Id: 5c192522-25f6-2807-e657-7582b7c75416@datsemultimedia.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Creating development virtual machine by Daniel Campbell
1 I think you pointed me in a direction I am quite happy to go in.
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3 My current development project is getting LedgerSMB to install on a more or less bare (Stage3?) Gentoo system.
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5 I will likely (after that has been managed) be looking at the Matrix Protocol starting with the synapse homeserver and the vector web client.
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7 For these, the development effort that *I* intend to be making would be to get it so that the install on gentoo will work correctly through portage.
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9 I believe that I would have to end up being on the "official gentoo development" so as to be able to handle issues through gentoo supported tools.
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11 Thank you very much.
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13 On 2016-08-20 17:15, Daniel Campbell wrote:
14 > On 08/20/2016 04:56 PM, Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku wrote:
15 > > I am looking to create a virtual machine which I can use to test to see
16 > > about my development efforts (currently with LedgerSMB) and getting
17 > > appropriate ebuild files created on a base install. I currently have no
18 > > virtualization software installed on the main development machine, so
19 > > that is as of now, largely irrelevant, but in the future I would like to
20 > > have the possibility of hosting my built boxes "in the cloud" so if
21 > > there is any virtualization system which likely would make that easier
22 > > (or at least not more difficult) that may be a factor.
23 > >
24 > > Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku
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27 > As many would likely tell you, it depends on what sort of development
28 > you intend on doing.
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30 > To start, I suggest qemu and KVM. They're libre software and there's a
31 > GUI frontend if you don't feel like manual configuration or shell
32 > scripting. I've used it to build a completely free/libre Gentoo
33 > installation, which I intend to use on a laptop in the future.
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35 > Our wiki has some decent pages on qemu and KVM. If the image files are
36 > the correct format (I'm not sure what format cloud providers prefer),
37 > they should work just fine. I would focus on using the correct image
38 > format and then building what some call a stage4. I think there are more
39 > tools for creating stage4s, but ultimately that's what you and I both
40 > are looking at: ready-to-go Gentoo installs that come with some needed
41 > software.
42 >
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