Hi Emmanuel, Interesting post -- thanks
On Wed, 10 Jul 2013, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: > I am trying to build Vanilla ( if not "Official") Debian Images for > VirtualBox/Vagrant, and I'd be interessted to shares experiences. > I have been experimenting with Veewee for that purpose (I documented the > steps here[1]) but I am moderately happy with the tool, so I am looking > for alternatives. veewee indeed sounds really nice and I did try using it at some point as well. My hurdle was is that it is Ruby-based and not packaged (yet [2]) for Debian while having relatively heavy list of dependencies, and integration with vagrant requires a custom build IIRC. Despite all those shortcomings I think that some time in the future we might migrate to it since it does look like a solid, maintained, and expandable happen we need more backends (e.g. lxc-docker [3]). > How are the VirtualBox images von neuro.debian.net produced ? Is there a > kind of script / automated process ? yes -- it is fully automated but YMMV since script evolved from an ad-hoc setup, although we parametrized it (recently). See http://github.com/neurodebian/neurodebian/blob/HEAD/vm/tools/nd_createappliance so usually I use smth like ./nd_createappliance -i ../../../neurodebian-images/debian-wheezy-DI-a1-amd64-businesscard.iso amd64 IIRC ;) But what particular use-case/expansion are you looking to do? may be our stock VM could be expanded to accommodate the need and remove necessity for a derivative one to be created. Otherwise http://neuro.debian.net/derivatives.html also might be of interest/relevance. P.S. We might better of continuing this discussion on http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/neurodebian-devel if you do not mind > [1]https://wiki.debian.org/Veewee [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658863 [3] http://www.docker.io/ -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Ph.D. http://neuro.debian.net http://www.pymvpa.org http://www.fail2ban.org Senior Research Associate, Psychological and Brain Sciences Dept. Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik _______________________________________________ Neurodebian-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/neurodebian-users
