Last night I decided I wanted to create a new Gentoo virtual appliance. So I build a Drupal[1] appliance. Though I really don't know anything about Drupal, but I managed to get one made.
I uploaded a "pruned" appliance. Which means I removed the gentoo toolchain, so it's not upgradable or manageable in the Gentoo sense. It's just the appliance. But I did so just to see how small I could make it. It turns out to be a 63M compressed vmdk[2] with 72 packages installed[3] (excluding virtuals). Anyway see below if anyone wants to play with it, and let me know if you have any suggestions. -a [1] http://drupal.org/ [2] http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/drupal-dist.vmdk.bz2 [3] http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/drupal-dist-package.lst
