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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
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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
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