On Mar 15, 2009, at 6:21 AM, Sebastian Dziallas <sebast...@when.com> wrote:
> 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 Awesome, nice work Sebastian! I'll check these out on Monday if you send me a link. Best, Wade _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep