On Monday, June 27 at 22:44 (-0500), James Wall said:
2. I then went into the properties of the VM and changed the
controller type to SCSI and readded the disk image.
If you let me know what controller virtualbox natively uses I can add
that to the kernel config.
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote:
On Monday, June 27 at 22:44 (-0500), James Wall said:
2. I then went into the properties of the VM and changed the
controller type to SCSI and readded the disk image.
If you let me know what controller virtualbox
On Tuesday, June 28 at 09:32 (-0500), James Wall said:
Albert,
it uses the AHCI driver for the sata controller.
You know it's odd, I was just talking with someone yesterday about why
don't the hypervisors default to AHCI since it's somewhat universal by
now.
Anyway, I will rebuild an image
On Tuesday, June 28 at 10:57 (-0400), Albert Hopkins said:
Anyway, I will rebuild an image with AHCI support and upload it
shortly.
Done, uploaded to the same place:
http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/base-dist.vmdk.bz2
I also made the image bigger (10GB). Oddly enough, it compresses
Albert,
Thanks for sharing the guest image. I have gotten it installed on my
virtualbox to allow me to experiment with it. Thanks again for sharing
your work.
James Wall
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On Monday, June 27 at 18:47 (-0500), James Wall said:
Albert,
Thanks for sharing the guest image. I have gotten it installed on my
virtualbox to allow me to experiment with it. Thanks again for sharing
your work.
Cool, now I at least know it works with vmware and virtualbox.
I will
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote:
On Monday, June 27 at 18:47 (-0500), James Wall said:
Albert,
Thanks for sharing the guest image. I have gotten it installed on my
virtualbox to allow me to experiment with it. Thanks again for sharing
your work.
On Thursday, June 23 at 12:52 (-0400), Albert Hopkins said:
I've uploaded a (390MB) vmdk. I've been told by someone that it works
with vmware (not sure what version).
This was build just a few minutes ago with the latest stage3 tarball and
the latest portage snapshot.
On Thursday 23 June 2011 08:16:33 Pandu Poluan wrote:
-original message-
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
From: Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org
Date: 2011-06-23 07:11
I have a program that I use to create Gentoo VM appliances. I have no
idea
On Thursday, June 23 at 09:54 (+0200), Joost Roeleveld said:
Any such program to build XenServer appliances (.xva) ?
Shouldn't it work similarly?
Eg. start an appliance and install using the stage4?
I use Xen directly and as long as I can create and fill the partitions
for the
VM,
On Thursday, June 23 at 00:35 (-0400), Matthew Finkel said:
Oh, don't get me wrong, that's one reason I use qcow2 myself, but it's
either something he would have to deal with when he received it or the
conversion would increase the size of the disk image that would be
shipped to him.
Yes,
On Thursday 23 June 2011 07:18:38 Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Thursday, June 23 at 09:54 (+0200), Joost Roeleveld said:
Any such program to build XenServer appliances (.xva) ?
Shouldn't it work similarly?
Eg. start an appliance and install using the stage4?
I use Xen directly and as
On Thursday, June 23 at 13:45 (+0200), Joost Roeleveld said:
Yes the stage4 should work similarly. However Pandu was asking
about
building .xva which I know nothing about, unless an .xva is
similar
to/same as a stage4 (I have no idea)?
.xva is a format specifically for Citrix Xen.
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 18:18, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote:
On Thursday, June 23 at 09:54 (+0200), Joost Roeleveld said:
Any such program to build XenServer appliances (.xva) ?
Shouldn't it work similarly?
Eg. start an appliance and install using the stage4?
I use
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 20:12, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote:
On Thursday, June 23 at 13:45 (+0200), Joost Roeleveld said:
Yes the stage4 should work similarly. However Pandu was asking
about
building .xva which I know nothing about, unless an .xva is
similar
to/same as
On 06/23/11 07:15, Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Thursday, June 23 at 00:35 (-0400), Matthew Finkel said:
Oh, don't get me wrong, that's one reason I use qcow2 myself, but it's
either something he would have to deal with when he received it or the
conversion would increase the size of the disk
On Thursday 23 June 2011 09:12:15 Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Thursday, June 23 at 13:45 (+0200), Joost Roeleveld said:
Yes the stage4 should work similarly. However Pandu was asking
about
building .xva which I know nothing about, unless an .xva is
similar
to/same as a
On Thursday, June 23 at 12:32 (-0400), Matthew Finkel said:
On 06/23/11 07:15, Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Thursday, June 23 at 00:35 (-0400), Matthew Finkel said:
Oh, don't get me wrong, that's one reason I use qcow2 myself, but it's
either something he would have to deal with when he
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
The times I've tried to get a recent gentoo version running in a vm on
windows turned out to be labor taking days to get right.
Does anyone know if there is a fairly current gentoo appliance
somewhere that I can just
On 6/22/2011 2:52 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
If that isn't available maybe someone has a fairly current kernel
config that is known to boot on a windows host with guest gentoo.
http://badapple.net/files/gentoo-vbox.config
Windows 7, vbox 4.0.8, gentoo-sources-2.6.36-r5, no video drivers
kashani
On Wednesday, June 22 at 16:52 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
The times I've tried to get a recent gentoo version running in a vm on
windows turned out to be labor taking days to get right.
Does anyone know if there is a fairly current gentoo appliance
somewhere that I can just install and
-original message-
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
From: Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org
Date: 2011-06-23 07:11
I have a program that I use to create Gentoo VM appliances. I have no
idea if it works with vbox or vmware as I run KVM, but I think it
*should
On 06/22/11 20:11, Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Wednesday, June 22 at 16:52 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
The times I've tried to get a recent gentoo version running in a vm on
windows turned out to be labor taking days to get right.
Does anyone know if there is a fairly current gentoo appliance
On Wednesday, June 22 at 21:31 (-0400), Matthew Finkel said:
The stage4
(excluding portage) would be ~90MB (bz2). The disk image (compressed
QCOW is about 120MB)
The only issue with qcow2 is that in order to use it with VB, IIRC you
need to convert it to raw before you can import it.
On Thursday, June 23 at 08:16 (+0700), Pandu Poluan said:
Any such program to build XenServer appliances (.xva) ?
I haven't any. I have no experience with XenServer appliances.
On 06/22/11 22:14, Albert Hopkins wrote:
Perhaps, but it's trivial to convert qcows to other formats.
Oh, don't get me wrong, that's one reason I use qcow2 myself, but it's
either something he would have to deal with when he received it or the
conversion would increase the size of the disk image
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