On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 19:01 +0200, Tiziano Müller wrote: > Hi there, > > At the OpenExpo here in Zurich I got many requests for a vmware image of > Gentoo. What do you think of providing a "live image" in addition to the > minimal- and live-cd's?
Bug #115902 If you can answer the questions in that bug sufficiently, feel free to revisit this. Also, please contact the team that would likely be doing all of the work to get this sort of thing done prior to bringing up such a proposal, especially when there's already a bug report open for it. ;] We now have a wonderful x86 Release Coordinator, which was one of the blockers in doing a VMware image before. Of course, there's always the "what is Gentoo" question to determine what we would put in a VM. I don't get this obsession with a "live image" when someone can boot the LiveCD/LiveDVD on real hardware *or* in VMware. They can even boot the ISO directly and not even have to burn to disk, so people without a DVD burner can still use the LiveDVD. So exactly what problem are we trying to solve with creating an image that cannot be solved with our current media? Where do you plan on storing such a large image? What other media are you planning on us removing to support it? (By the way, I am planning on adding support for creating VMware images to catalyst, so this will eventually be something much easier for us in Release Engineering...) -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation
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