From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 31 19:05:24 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B905933D; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 19:05:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [IPv6:2001:470:1f05:b76::196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D95B6434B; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 19:05:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from AlfredMacbookAir.local (c-76-21-10-192.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [76.21.10.192]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F2747341F874; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 11:05:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54A44928.4050701@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 11:06:16 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein Organization: FreeBSD User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garrett Cooper Subject: Re: How to make a FreeBSD vm in virtualbox. References: <13C55A7B-4010-40FA-901B-DF8ED6BADD87@freebsd.org> <20141231042455.GB53230@hub.FreeBSD.org> <24520431-8E2A-4D70-BD2D-D8D76A98C762@freebsd.org> <20141231151723.GA75959@hub.FreeBSD.org> <20141231175658.GD75959@hub.FreeBSD.org> <35F27CF1-A230-49AC-B077-2C7621C47D85@gmail.com> <54A44705.6000005@freebsd.org> <60DD8B3D-B499-4F0D-8AD4-AF85F902489A@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <60DD8B3D-B499-4F0D-8AD4-AF85F902489A@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Adrian Chadd , FreeBSD Release Engineering Team , Ryan Kois , Claudia Yadathi , Glen Barber , "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" , Will Andrews X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 19:05:24 -0000 On 12/31/14 11:03 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Dec 31, 2014, at 10:57, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > >> On 12/31/14 10:40 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: >>> On Dec 31, 2014, at 10:12, Adrian Chadd 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