Sanjay Nadkarni wrote:
> Kevin Fox wrote:
>   
>> On Dec 5, 2007, at 3:51 PM, Dave Miner wrote:
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> Kevin Fox wrote:
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> We understand Indiana has a hard requirement to be tailored down  
>>>> to  fit on a CD media.
>>>> We will be deploying a Solaris router appliance project in the  
>>>> next  few weeks that uses
>>>> Quagga with Zones as well as a Webmin interface that provides  
>>>> initial  Live media configuration
>>>> (see http://opensolaris.org/os/project/vnm/VirtualRouter/).
>>>> Up until this point we have been using xVM as a prototyping   
>>>> environment, and have recently
>>>> setup an augmented Indiana release with all our components so we  
>>>> can  leverage the Live
>>>> media environment as well as the gui-install for instantiating  
>>>> the  trial configuration on a local
>>>> drive.  Cool stuff :-)
>>>> Unfortunately, xVM support is not available in Indiana, obviously   
>>>> pruned because of space
>>>> requirements.  This is meant to be a router development kit, so   
>>>> creating separate domains that
>>>> can feed a router domain for testing/debugging/prototyping  
>>>> without  having to locate/install
>>>> other isolated hardware is very important.
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> Actually, it wasn't necessarily a space issue, it was more that we  
>>> needed to settle on a package list earlier and didn't have time to  
>>> re-evaluate it with xVM.  It might actually fit, have you tried it?  
>>> We'd be interested in the results since that's something we do have  
>>> to look into before too long.
>>>     
>>>       
>> Interesting ... It may fit without our additional components, but  
>> we've managed to eliminate
>> just about every remaining kilobyte of headroom so co-existence would  
>> be difficult without
>> eliminating other Indiana components.  If there's a short-list of  
>> questionable packages in your
>> package list I'd be very interested in knowing what those candidates  
>> might be.  In any case,
>> we'll take a hard look at what's there and let you know if we can  
>> find a decent compromise,
>> at least for our application ....
>>
>>   
>>     
> There are very few things that can be removed.  What is the total size 
> of the pkgs you plan to add to the image ?    I had taken a quick stab 
> at this at one point, and IIRC, including domu' would not be much but 
> once one drags the vert* tools, size increases rapidly.
>
>
> -Sanjay
>
>   

FYI.  Last I used the Distro Constructor, the image is 655MB.

--Karen

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