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
