From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 20 23:52:41 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 84545106564A; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:52:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yerenkow@gmail.com) Received: from mail-tul01m020-f182.google.com (mail-tul01m020-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 268BA8FC13; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:52:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obbwd18 with SMTP id wd18so4179617obb.13 for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:52:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=q8BiBId5IQbLzZg350oQVjnqPaZur64reBR6Wlc0OaU=; b=hDTo23MP0xFpVHRwJY7ah+cxdbJ4WuexNPpMRGRz5gNAmWCbDRpOZW6IBM6vl9UIiF XK+bQgE5t0aEEfb7DQXhudj2o+Txwk4zQEPclr+ZsHkDHUs9tDrdKn8hruuopiahilzT RMCUHcLWdGu3HmD6Ya4aEc30TmOUqvkqbfOUw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.193.41 with SMTP id hl9mr3710658obc.44.1324425160540; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:52:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.182.150.70 with HTTP; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:52:40 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20111220222253.GC55364@azathoth.lan> References: <0DBBB027-DB51-4245-8DC5-EC5F98D66777@gsoft.com.au> <20111220222253.GC55364@azathoth.lan> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:52:40 +0200 Message-ID: From: Alexander Yerenkow To: Baptiste Daroussin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 23:52:41 -0000 2011/12/21 Baptiste Daroussin > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:31:51PM +0200, Alexander Yerenkow wrote: > > 2011/12/19 Adrian Chadd > > > > > 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