Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:52:40 +0200 From: Alexander Yerenkow <yerenkow@gmail.com> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: VM images for FreeBSD Message-ID: <CAPJF9wn191Ue5wr7yFt3CKWyjfa8tR3JLC1bE0%2BvWiFh5GTdKQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111220222253.GC55364@azathoth.lan> References: <CAPJF9wmf89mV2M3PO5deoWJ9i2FPHkQ1asgLzd9-bGkAd7j79g@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110170742420.16168@wonkity.com> <CAPJF9wmeZadAQjFPBDq4x4fK3KgwnXyTKBmXdp9bRF2piwGJ0Q@mail.gmail.com> <0DBBB027-DB51-4245-8DC5-EC5F98D66777@gsoft.com.au> <F7B6035F-D438-412E-ABB3-A475CD848ACD@gmail.com> <CAPJF9wndVGKVUhrS=QhxbUnNd67KHrPGM8mcZTiFUMbiCDEkFQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmomkmBNNTb%2BghgerRAJegZx_FgTCsb080j5w5qps9vO20Q@mail.gmail.com> <CAPJF9wnWAY-XkD9emfHPeTX6JhOLwjALaLPpKhGNgTh5Fp0wTA@mail.gmail.com> <20111220222253.GC55364@azathoth.lan>
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2011/12/21 Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:31:51PM +0200, Alexander Yerenkow wrote: > > 2011/12/19 Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> > > > > > 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 > maybe > > some image for benchmarking :) > > > > > > 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 > still > 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. > This is good :) Do you have some scripts left? > the image can be easily created from the release. > Well, I'm trying to build custom images, like rolling from svn [+ patches] [+ packages] [+ some initial config]. A way for building images from release I think can be taken from PC-BSD, they distribute upcoming 9 in VM formats too. > > regards, > Bapt > -- Regards, Alexander Yerenkow
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