Hi, The debian-boot and/or debian-cd mailing-lists are probably more suitable for your question. Since I had similar thought regarding VirtualPC, I'll add my comments here.
Basically, the main problem is not to provide *once* an image. If Debian were to provides VM images, those must be up to date (latest point releases, etc). So what you need is to setup some procedure to rebuild those images when a there's a new point release. On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 14:50 -0500, Lukasz Szybalski wrote: > I was wondering if debian.org has vmware image of Debian > stable,testing,unstable somewhere? Also, users will expects the usual variants : - Gnome, KDE, Xfce and minimal - i386 and amd64 - for stable, testing and unstable Then users will want VMWare, VirtualPC, qemu and VirtualBox images... This probably means that you need to have a pre-seeding file to automate those installations... Maybe we could also/just publish those pre-seeding files (??). > This would be great thing for anybody that wanted to start using debian > right away, but didn't want to reinstall the whole os on their machine. > Basically more users using Debian. An alternative solution might be to use debian-live images (especially the "USB" one ?) If you still feel like working on it ( = do the job), I personally think that's a good idea. Typically it's three steps : Step 1 : Build and provide one/some image(s) on your [ISP] server. Step 2 : Provide the images as unofficial service (i.e xxxx.debian.net) Step 3 : Those images actually prove to be useful, and become official*. Franklin *) becomes official... If the content is actually DFSG compatible, etc.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
