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Date:      Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:50:35 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Alexander Yerenkow <yerenkow@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VM images for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110170742420.16168@wonkity.com>
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On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Alexander Yerenkow wrote:

> Hello all.
> I'm currently made set of scripts, which builds FreeBSD from svn sources,
> and packing it in VirtualBox (*.vdi) compatible images.
> It's working now, and producing something like
>
> FreeBSD-9-i386-r226409-2011-10-16.vdi.xz (also .vdi, .vdi.zip and plain .img
> which can be dd to USB flash).
>
> I'm developing this here:
> https://github.com/yerenkow/freebsd-vm-image
>
> I have more goals to do (like producing more images, with a installed sets
> of packages, like KDE-from-ports, KDE-from-area51, with experimental GEM
> drivers etc.)

Excellent!  If live CD/memdisk features are added, this could also be 
useful for testing large xorg port updates before commit.

PS: why bash for cron-auto-action.sh?



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