Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 11:26:05 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Release Engineering Team <re@freebsd.org>, Benno Rice <benno@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: <A7587A80-B226-4DB4-B999-B317F09D8416@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <54A44928.4050701@freebsd.org> 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> <CADBaqmhES1mFJ6iWjwRY=2Y9HJfDeJky%2BqwKmP9TeTdA6ufBfw@mail.gmail.com> <20141231175658.GD75959@hub.FreeBSD.org> <CAJ-Vmok04zyZ-6qafmDpdyTcmi_n-fbgTAEeTXFbof9Lrg9uFA@mail.gmail.com> <35F27CF1-A230-49AC-B077-2C7621C47D85@gmail.com> <54A44705.6000005@freebsd.org> <60DD8B3D-B499-4F0D-8AD4-AF85F902489A@gmail.com> <54A44928.4050701@freebsd.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Dec 31, 2014, at 11:06, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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. Probably VMware disclosing their modifications to source code as well as what they statically compile into the tool *shrugs*. If I need to I’ll try some internal channels; it’s just a few hops to get to the VMware folks for folks on Benno’s team because we don’t work in the same geographical area as the folks do in SC. Thanks! [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJUpE3NAAoJEMZr5QU6S73emu8H/Rx/1yaFpQbvY01dGaRa84Up z/chVIxrGmrtIabHWEcSZeMa+Lryc8wH077guYjxFk1q2tMyqHx+ur2mTuIeEGQo r5b4Prma4zc4/zxBdlv8lEXEs32Ema4FPckxll7gqxjWzoO4IkYJ21OVEX0l90mH oodcTufUP4E6zUvMxbKbtpaEm6w9mgPRjjcTWov5E8fIZnqIEqqy3NxAkdSg7n16 9H44GaWtiJiTZJ+jKZlgYMj3vmsOBFXFk8RG0OnUJjPKpr45UtqLqkQjCThJtzvm V/V7vuOFM2rdPhyGFub++AHIEsMe/NlNaCzLDl9+v4wW0WsauaQgH+t/evlzpw4= =tavd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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