On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Luke Faraone <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Dave Bauer <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> But really, all we need to be doing is producing .vmdk files (virtual >>>> disk images) for our SoaS snapshots. These files can be loaded in any >>>> of VMware, VirtualBox and Parallels, and can be used with QEMU after a >>>> command line conversion step. > > In any case, even if it was this easy (other seem to report otherwise), it's > more steps than an educator should have to perform. The idea is that we can > provide them with prepackaged, no extra-fluff-needed executables, *as well* > as in raw image formats. > > Moreover, VMDK files are (IIRC) hard to generate programmatically, whereas > COW/QEMU images can be generated easilly as part of a build script.
Actually, you can create a .vmdk from .img using the QEMU tools. It's just that .vmdk is much more widely supported that .img so it would save a conversion step for most VM users. I agree that we should be providing 1 click solutions *in addition* to providing .vmdk files for people who already use VMs regularly. Wade _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
