On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 5:21 AM, Sebastian Dziallas <[email protected]> wrote: > Wade Brainerd wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Dave Bauer <[email protected]> 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.
Maybe, you could get Sasche to set something to create automatic daily builds on the Sugar Labs build farm:) david > Cheers, > --Sebastian > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
