Le 06/01/2016 04:11, Ryan Bantz a écrit : > Hi Emmanuel, > > I noticed that you don't have any base boxes for the VMWare provider. I > utilize Vmware fusion and would like to have one. If I put one together can > we publish it? > > I haven't built a box yet but it looks fairly easy with packer. Any special > requirements you guys have? > > -Ryan > @ryanbantz > Hi Ryan Thanks for the positive feedback !
Creating a VMware base box would probably require VMWare Fusion in the build chain, and VMWare products have quite restrictive licences, even not suitable for debian-nonfree. Since we don't have an opensource, or at least a free-to-distribute build system for VMWare base boxes, we are not doing it. Note that in theory it should be also possible to create a VmWare image by exporting a Virtualbox image, since the VMware guest drivers are opensource and packaged in Debian (open-vmtools), but how to test the final image without having Vmware itself ? However you're free to create your own boxes in atlas, and we can refer to them in the documentation. I advise you to join the debian-cloud mailing list to follow the boxes related discussions. Emmanuel
