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On 23/03/2014 00:23, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> thegeezer <thegeezer@×××××××××.net> writes: |
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>> On 03/22/2014 09:44 PM, thegeezer wrote: |
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>>> On 03/22/2014 08:58 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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>>>> Can anyone post a known source of recent gentoo based vm appliances? |
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>>>> One that will work with VirtualBox would be especially handy. |
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>> was curious though - a quick google search shows |
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>> http://gentoo-en.vfose.ru/wiki/Virtualbox_Guest#Configuring_the_Kernel |
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>> for the kernel conf |
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>> and |
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>> http://virtualboxes.org/Fimages/gentoo/ for the image |
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>> or |
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>> http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-websites-to-download-virtual-disk-images-for-virtualbox/ |
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>> for pointers to a few more |
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>> my own 2c though, you don't really know what's on them so make sure to |
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>> tread carefully! |
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> A few points: |
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> There used to be a fellow that posted here regularly who built them |
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> My googling also turned up at least the middle one. |
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> I was pretty sure that there would be a newer setup than 2008 |
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> And finally, I hoped to hear of a tried and true source to eliminate |
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> all the kind of guesswork you are suggesting to be careful of. |
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Harry, |
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Why look for a pre-built VM? |
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Latest stage 3 is likely to be more current than a pre-built VM, and its |
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really hard to come up with a setup that suits general needs. |
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This is gentoo after all, and you are likely to to tweak a VM anyway |
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just like you'd do with a regular host. In the time it takes to download |
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a pre-built VM, you could also download a stage3 plus portage snapshot |
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and unpack them into a blank VM, with much the same result. |
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What are you hoping to achieve by using something pre-built? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |