Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:01:20 -0500 From: Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com> To: Alexander Yerenkow <yerenkow@gmail.com> Cc: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: VM images for FreeBSD Message-ID: <CAKYr3zx5PxcbpeANuBJQkk3AiDnjR%2Bp387DBCsp_RtmK2bLOog@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAPJF9wn191Ue5wr7yFt3CKWyjfa8tR3JLC1bE0%2BvWiFh5GTdKQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPJF9wmf89mV2M3PO5deoWJ9i2FPHkQ1asgLzd9-bGkAd7j79g@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110170742420.16168@wonkity.com> <CAPJF9wmeZadAQjFPBDq4x4fK3KgwnXyTKBmXdp9bRF2piwGJ0Q@mail.gmail.com> <0DBBB027-DB51-4245-8DC5-EC5F98D66777@gsoft.com.au> <F7B6035F-D438-412E-ABB3-A475CD848ACD@gmail.com> <CAPJF9wndVGKVUhrS=QhxbUnNd67KHrPGM8mcZTiFUMbiCDEkFQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmomkmBNNTb%2BghgerRAJegZx_FgTCsb080j5w5qps9vO20Q@mail.gmail.com> <CAPJF9wnWAY-XkD9emfHPeTX6JhOLwjALaLPpKhGNgTh5Fp0wTA@mail.gmail.com> <20111220222253.GC55364@azathoth.lan> <CAPJF9wn191Ue5wr7yFt3CKWyjfa8tR3JLC1bE0%2BvWiFh5GTdKQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Alexander Yerenkow <yerenkow@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/12/21 Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> > >> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:31:51PM +0200, Alexander Yerenkow wrote: >> > 2011/12/19 Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> >> > >> > > Hi, >> > > >> > > Hm, so this lets us create a virtualbox image from what, a set of >> > > install tarballs? Or /usr/src build? >> > > >> > > I'm using cross-build and installation from sources dir (which is after >> > that got svn-up'ed and all goes again). >> > It shouldn't be complex to install to image from installation media >> and/or >> > tarballs, but mine main idea is to have rolling image for making some >> > automated tests. >> > Currently I'm establishing building and providing images scheme, will do >> > images with KMS+small graphical programs, with qt+unstable KDE, and >> > probably with BHyVe. I think that's most useful setups currently. And >> maybe >> > some image for benchmarking :) >> > >> > >> >> FYI I have been working on a ova file generator for the release, I manage >> to >> create ova images that do work on VirtualBox without problems, there are >> still >> some problems with vmware for now, the goal is to have a standard vm ready >> image >> (ova is standard) that would work on every system that do support it. >> > How about in XEN 4.1 a .vhd image would be awesome, especially boot from zfs > This is good :) > Do you have some scripts left? > > >> the image can be easily created from the release. >> > > Well, I'm trying to build custom images, like rolling from svn [+ patches] > [+ packages] [+ some initial config]. > A way for building images from release I think can be taken from PC-BSD, > they distribute upcoming 9 in VM formats too. > > > >> >> regards, >> Bapt >> > > > > -- > Regards, > Alexander Yerenkow > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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