On 23/03/2014 00:23, Harry Putnam wrote: > thegeezer <[email protected]> writes: > >> On 03/22/2014 09:44 PM, thegeezer wrote: >>> On 03/22/2014 08:58 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >>>> Can anyone post a known source of recent gentoo based vm appliances? >>>> >>>> One that will work with VirtualBox would be especially handy. >>>> >> was curious though - a quick google search shows >> http://gentoo-en.vfose.ru/wiki/Virtualbox_Guest#Configuring_the_Kernel >> for the kernel conf >> and >> http://virtualboxes.org/Fimages/gentoo/ for the image >> or >> http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-websites-to-download-virtual-disk-images-for-virtualbox/ >> for pointers to a few more >> >> my own 2c though, you don't really know what's on them so make sure to >> tread carefully! > > A few points: > There used to be a fellow that posted here regularly who built them > > My googling also turned up at least the middle one. > I was pretty sure that there would be a newer setup than 2008 > > And finally, I hoped to hear of a tried and true source to eliminate > all the kind of guesswork you are suggesting to be careful of.
Harry, Why look for a pre-built VM? Latest stage 3 is likely to be more current than a pre-built VM, and its really hard to come up with a setup that suits general needs. This is gentoo after all, and you are likely to to tweak a VM anyway just like you'd do with a regular host. In the time it takes to download a pre-built VM, you could also download a stage3 plus portage snapshot and unpack them into a blank VM, with much the same result. What are you hoping to achieve by using something pre-built? -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
