Wade Brainerd wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Dave Bauer <dave.ba...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> 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. >> Right, VMDK is not easily reusable though, for Parallels you have to perform >> a few steps to reuse it. >> >> One click solution is the goal of course. QEMU really isn't that solution >> unless you can use acceleration. The speed is pretty much unusable >> otherwise, and that is really only useful for testing if you are very >> patient. Anyone who needs a 1-click installer also would expect reasonable >> performance. >> I haven't found an easy way to get QEMU working with acceleration on OS X. >> I think we are working towards a solution, just not as quickly as we would >> like. >> >> Dave > > I brought up VMware Virtual Appliances as an option at one point, has > anyone tried creating one of those? I'm not sure how close to "one > click" they are though. > > VirtualBox appears to have the beginnings of some appliance support as well. > > Best, > Wade
Okay folks, sorry for the late reply, as I just came across this thread (I was a bit behind my e-mail). So let me explain some things: There are the appliance-tools (www.thincrust.net) available which do in fact exactly the thing which has been discussed here. You can even specify a output file type, so that you'd get vmdk, raw or other files. Sounds cool, heh? :) Well, what I've done now is that I've taken our kickstart files and made one for the appliance creation up out of them. It's also in the soas GIT repo. Then I worked on getting appliance-tools to work on our build systems (thanks erikos here!) and it now creates flawlessly such a .vmdk file. I already gave it a try and it boots, but doesn't come up with the Sugar desktop, but fails when trying to log in. A good idea would be probably to have these images built together with the other snapshots. Cheers, --Sebastian _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep