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On 06/22/11 20:11, Albert Hopkins wrote: |
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> On Wednesday, June 22 at 16:52 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: |
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>> The times I've tried to get a recent gentoo version running in a vm on |
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>> windows turned out to be labor taking days to get right. |
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>> Does anyone know if there is a fairly current gentoo appliance |
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>> somewhere that I can just install and then update or customize? |
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>> I'd prefer to run it with vbox but if the appliance is vmware created |
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>> that's ok too. I do have a license up to 6.5. |
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>> If that isn't available maybe someone has a fairly current kernel |
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>> config that is known to boot on a windows host with guest gentoo. |
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>> As I recall from my efforts, there were always problems with something |
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>> to do with scuzzi drivers or whatnot. |
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> I have a program that I use to create Gentoo VM appliances. I have no |
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> idea if it works with vbox or vmware as I run KVM, but I think it |
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> *should* work. Anyway if you want to try it you can or, if you want, it |
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> also builds stage4 tarballs, so I can build you a stage4 tarball of a |
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> base Gentoo install pretty easily (including kernel). The stage4 |
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> (excluding portage) would be ~90MB (bz2). The disk image (compressed |
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> QCOW is about 120MB) |
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The only issue with qcow2 is that in order to use it with VB, IIRC you |
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need to convert it to raw before you can import it. |
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