From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 20 22:22:57 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1657106564A; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:22:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bapt@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 642328FC0A; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:22:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id pBKMMvZ7024837; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:22:57 GMT (envelope-from bapt@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from bapt@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id pBKMMvLx024836; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:22:57 GMT (envelope-from bapt@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: bapt set sender to bapt@FreeBSD.org using -f Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:22:53 +0100 From: Baptiste Daroussin To: Alexander Yerenkow Message-ID: <20111220222253.GC55364@azathoth.lan> References: <0DBBB027-DB51-4245-8DC5-EC5F98D66777@gsoft.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YD3LsXFS42OYHhNZ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: Adrian Chadd , freebsd-current Subject: Re: VM images for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:22:57 -0000 --YD3LsXFS42OYHhNZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:31:51PM +0200, Alexander Yerenkow wrote: > 2011/12/19 Adrian Chadd >=20 > > 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 may= be > some image for benchmarking :) >=20 >=20 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 st= ill 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. the image can be easily created from the release. regards, Bapt --YD3LsXFS42OYHhNZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk7xCr0ACgkQ8kTtMUmk6ExTLgCfWMo6gBe+wjpNhnqFN9Xb8kKD 1AYAn3ntS1hYClnioKgSo2E7sT3pxOJF =fChJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YD3LsXFS42OYHhNZ--