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Date:      Wed, 31 Dec 2014 11:06:16 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To:        Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
Cc:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Release Engineering Team <re@freebsd.org>, Ryan Kois <ryan.kois@gmail.com>, Claudia Yadathi <yadathi@gmail.com>, Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <hackers@freebsd.org>, Will Andrews <will@firepipe.net>
Subject:   Re: How to make a FreeBSD vm in virtualbox.
Message-ID:  <54A44928.4050701@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <60DD8B3D-B499-4F0D-8AD4-AF85F902489A@gmail.com>
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On 12/31/14 11:03 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Dec 31, 2014, at 10:57, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> On 12/31/14 10:40 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>> On Dec 31, 2014, at 10:12, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm confused by this discussion.
>>>>
>>>> The basic image generation doesn't need to use any third-party tools.
>>>>
>>>> We can always have a transformation step /after/ those images are
>>>> generated that uses third party tools to generate other images. Much
>>>> like Alfred's shell script.
>>>>
>>>> I know it sucks, but unless someone wants to write BSD versions of all
>>>> of those configuration pieces, we're going to be stuck using external
>>>> tools to do things. And those things will get eyeballs.
>>>
>>> It’s really unfortunate that the VMware option requires linux compat (at least) in order to work:
>>>
>>> https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?productId=352&downloadGroup=OVFTOOL350
>>>
>>> Is there anyone who’s been working with VMware directly to add FreeBSD support? If so, I think that opensourcing this tool (or at least having a binary) would potentially be the best win of all in the short-term.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>
>> https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?productId=353&downloadGroup=OVFTOOL350_OSS
>
> That works too! Now all we need to do is make that into a port...
>

Actually we need to figure out how that file is actually the google-url 
library instead.... wat...

~/tmp % tar xzvf ../ovftools-3.0.1-and-3.5.0-OSS.tar.gz
x google-url-r147/
x google-url-r147/LICENSE.txt
x google-url-r147/third_party/
x google-url-r147/third_party/icu/
x google-url-r147/third_party/icu/build/
x google-url-r147/third_party/icu/build/using_icu.vsprops
x google-url-r147/README.txt
x google-url-r147/src/
x google-url-r147/src/url_parse_file.cc
...


I'll ping some folks over there and see what's up.

-Alfred



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