Re: [qmailtoaster] Virtual Appliance

[Warren]

Jake Vickers wrote: Kenneth Swain wrote: On 3/21/06, Jake Vickers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kenneth Swain wrote: > Has anyone here thought about building a virtual appliance for VMware? > I have thought about doing it, but think we would need some support > from those of us that use qmail toaster. Any takers? Sorry if I'm not up on the lingo (or am just misunderstanding....). Are you asking to build an ISO to run under VMware for QMail? I thought of building an ISO installer, but the issue that stops me is D. Bernstein's license... He does not allow QMail to be distributed in binary format - only source code. I know, could have it build during install, but that adds time to the install, and with the scripts everyone has already released to install it it hasn't been high on my side-project list. Or are you asking for something different? This is not an ISO, but a VMware image. You boot the image with a vmware product such as the free vmware player. It is ment to be ready to run with little or no modification. Okay, very similar. It may be something I'll look into in the future. I honestly won't get time for a couple months, though. If you want to continue with it, remind me sometime in the middle of May, and I'll have some time to look into it again (hopefully). It would not be all that hard to do, but it would have to be heavily scripted to download everything, compile and install it on the first boot.  Otherwise it would grow out of date pretty quickly.  You couldn't have everything installed, because that would violate the no-binaries clause in the license. W