Hi! Am Montag, den 06.08.2007, 09:15 +0200 schrieb Gerhard Hofmann: > Peter Varga wrote: > > Has anyone thought about creating and maintaining a VMWare Virtual > > Appliance (especially for ESX)? > > > > Hi Peter, > > creating some kind of Unattended appliance is a nice idea and I have > serious interest in creating (or contributing to) such an appliance. > > The appliance should be preconfigured with a working Samba server that > will have an "install" share with the typical subfolders scripts, > packages and so on. > > I would concentrate exclusively on application deployment and do not > care about OS deployment, see my previous post here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg06776.html > > There are two types of appliances I could imagine: > - creating a complete virtual machine with Linux + Samba > + install share > pro: very easy to get it running > con: quite a big file to distribute, any minor change would > mean to repackage and redistribute the whole thing
Just an idea, what about the snapshot feature? Maybe there is a way to distribute only the snapshot as an update and only for a new release the "whole thing"... greetings mario ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
