Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 13:15:50 -0500 From: Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to make a FreeBSD vm in virtualbox. Message-ID: <54A43D56.4030306@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20141231180639.GE43180@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> 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> <20141231180639.GE43180@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 2014-12-31 13:06, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 03:17:23PM +0000, Glen Barber wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 10:04:38PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >>> >>> On Dec 30, 2014, at 8:24 PM, Glen Barber wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 07:42:36PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >>>>> After he linked it to me, I decided that it would make sense if >>>>> this was scripted and would really make sense as part of the release >>>>> process. >>>>> >>>> >>>> We already provide VMDK images. There is nothing, that I can see, that >>>> is different from how I've been testing the various images. Creating >>>> a new VM and attaching the VMDK to the disk controller is the intended >>>> workflow. >>> >>> The difference is that with a vmdk you must get the exact >>> combinations of items correct or you will wind up with a FreeBSD >>> instance that will not boot. With the ova, you just run a single >>> command "VBoxManage FreeBSD.ova" and stuff "just works", or you can >>> even just double click on the downloaded file from within your OS >>> X / Windows/ whatever host and it "just works". >>> >>> >>>> >>>>> I've written a script that will make a .ova that you can one-click >>>>> import into Virtualbox (and I think Fusion as well) here: >>>>> >>>>> https://gist.github.com/splbio/84bd4d2122782e99fc5c >>>>> >>>> >>>> Can you send the script as an attachment? >>> >>> Uh sure. It's attached. >>> >> >> Your script relies on VirtualBox being installed on the build machine, >> which I do not like. This is one of the major reasons I'm happy Marcel >> added VMDK support to mkimg(1) - all the components to create the >> formatted disk image exist in the base system. >> > > Long ago I had created the quick and really dirty: > https://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/vmdkimage-srcs/ > > This created ova files ready to be used in virtualbox (I had problem with vmware > I don't remember why) > > basically an ova file is a tar file in a given order with a template > (FreeBSD.ovf) and a manifest with checksums) > > This is really easy to produce and I agree it would be nice if we could produce > one. > > The matter for having something that worked both in vbox and vmware was playing > with the disk controler. > > What I did back in the time was generating an ova from vbox extracting the .ovf > reducing to the minimum required the final ovf and ask people to import in in > vmware (I do not have access to any vmware) > > Now that we have mkimg that should be rather easy to create an ova generator at > least for virtualbox (vmware compatible might be more tricky) > > The interesting part is that the ova format is normalized and used by lots of > the virtualisation tools out there > > Best regards, > Bapt > I was going to say, I thought a .ova file was just a .tar of the .vmdk and a .xml config file It doesn't seem like virtualbox would be required if the .xml file was generated and then checked into the tree -- Allan Jude [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUpD1ZAAoJEJrBFpNRJZKf1f4QAMSAsmS0FJE8fEzVvcNelMS0 mW6MJMPBj9L6ZCjMjNXyMipPrQrJUOW+jfMPwKAnVWAwyuqJvZxyYVUEz4UjZtGx A3SjZuh1RolszvQ6gxUvVG72R8V2edBzEiQGRYK2UhDJjwK/WmV2SxS+s4s0siIC p4bdZbNNadw/+mH56abO+Tg8tK8QacU5WZGKQkjRVJE8bA/98cmy59olP00vACEu 8Of/f5nfTXMrwtAMcrRlKwHDxLO7EbE3Qd5Bpzcjulrs3aKUWgQN1/eooquSELWG /OiawqYtY9xFi0Ao7t2J/JHM6xyhi/ffZprj8eUi5RZL9kzzgoMJwIN0GXz2CJ2O pSDzsr8jvx+4qVEPgzFrEIqjW5p1aoYZlIi9GFg2mFFM6SF+K0JShbPI9ddSsmLY xF4NKCBZH0cUTv6sMQ//MadpHhgtNyMsiIwuLcqFeZGqyjOD7JoCvlsb7eW+vU4I ZFIbXzE0ORvDS/V8dJBULZbkEdjXWzrn/KoBA4kG9iE2tfjjZtVj1/wDepHTHLlM YvoMSP/7KMn/lj9b3JUiM7Te8sq4Uxz9RIW+wfyYmNYcUtrv+7fVDNu7wKEAzIw0 ljqnMVR04LRlCzFEPOg4Rb4+Wjra3v9htrEzjyXtXjA+2aX9z9aVZzu4ubEhizSA oy5JJrbvk55C8hWxfk5V =W2QX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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