Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload
Creating a gentoo vm has always been a serious pita to me. I'm sure
there will be those who claim its `simple'.
Simple or not, I want to bypass it if possible.
So wondering if anyone here has (or has seen) a gentoo (vbox)
appliance available for download?
11-26-2011, 10:21 PM
Mark Knecht
Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Creating a gentoo vm has always been a serious pita to me. *I'm sure
> there will be those who claim its `simple'.
>
> Simple or not, I want to bypass it if possible.
>
> So wondering if anyone here has (or has seen) a gentoo (vbox)
> appliance available for download?
>
>
>
They are out there but my experience is they are generally sort of old
and unmaintained. Being a Gentoo user you know a Gentoo machine with
no updates for a year is almost useless in terms of moving forward.
Anyway, here's one I found in Google:
http://virtualboxes.org/images/gentoo/
HTH,
Mark
11-27-2011, 12:27 AM
James Wall
Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Creating a gentoo vm has always been a serious pita to me. *I'm sure
> there will be those who claim its `simple'.
>
> Simple or not, I want to bypass it if possible.
>
> So wondering if anyone here has (or has seen) a gentoo (vbox)
> appliance available for download?
>
>
>
From an earlier thread about virtual machine images the link is here:
the thread is titled [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/base.vmdk
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11-27-2011, 12:44 AM
"Albert W. Hopkins"
Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload
On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 17:01 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Creating a gentoo vm has always been a serious pita to me. I'm sure
> there will be those who claim its `simple'.
>
> Simple or not, I want to bypass it if possible.
>
> So wondering if anyone here has (or has seen) a gentoo (vbox)
> appliance available for download?
>
>
I maintain a quasi-daily build of a gentoo virtual appliance. It should
work with kvm, vmware, and virutalbox (and possibly xen?).
This is just a minimal Gentoo install, I have specialized appliances as
well.
11-27-2011, 09:52 AM
Harry Putnam
Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload
"Albert W. Hopkins" <marduk@letterboxes.org> writes:
> On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 17:01 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Creating a gentoo vm has always been a serious pita to me. I'm sure
>> there will be those who claim its `simple'.
>>
>> Simple or not, I want to bypass it if possible.
>>
>> So wondering if anyone here has (or has seen) a gentoo (vbox)
>> appliance available for download?
>>
>>
> I maintain a quasi-daily build of a gentoo virtual appliance. It should
> work with kvm, vmware, and virutalbox (and possibly xen?).
Albert, I cloned your hg repo and tried to build from it, but it fails
at downloading gentoo-sources. Something about not being able to
resolve the kernel URLS.
I suspect it is a problem in the ebuild itself, but I was not able to
find where `portage' is on disc during that build. I wanted to
attempt editing the ebuild but even with variable:
REMOVE_PORTAGE_TREE NO
I never find a `portage' directory.
Once the build fails, their is no `portage' directory containing the
tree.
,----
| Resolving www.fr.kernel.org... failed: Name or service not known.
| wget: unable to resolve host address “www.fr.kernel.org”
| >>> Downloading 'http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.1.tar.bz2'
| --2011-11-27 04:24:43-- http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.1.tar.bz2
| Resolving www.us.kernel.org... failed: Name or service not known.
| wget: unable to resolve host address “www.us.kernel.org”
| !!! Couldn't download 'linux-3.1.tar.bz2'. Aborting.
| * Fetch failed for 'sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.1.1', Log file:
| * '/var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.1.1/temp/build.log'
|
| * Messages for package sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.1.1:
|
| * Fetch failed for 'sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.1.1', Log file:
| * '/var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.1.1/temp/build.log'
`----
I cannot ping any of those kernel urls. But kernel.org appears up
ping kernel.org
PING kernel.org (149.20.4.69) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from pub2.kernel.org (149.20.4.69): icmp_req=1 ttl=55 time=87.5 ms
ls vabuild/var/tmp/
<empty>
Apparently umounted or rm'd
How to keep working portage tree accessible.
I monkeyed around with your Makefile but couldn't follow it well
enough to stop the umounting.
11-27-2011, 09:53 AM
Harry Putnam
Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload
James Wall <wallservices@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
>> Creating a gentoo vm has always been a serious pita to me. *I'm sure
>> there will be those who claim its `simple'.
>>
>> Simple or not, I want to bypass it if possible.
>>
>> So wondering if anyone here has (or has seen) a gentoo (vbox)
>> appliance available for download?
>>
>>
>>
>
> From an earlier thread about virtual machine images the link is here:
> the thread is titled [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
> http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/base.vmdk
That 404s for me.
11-27-2011, 09:59 AM
Harry Putnam
Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload
"Albert W. Hopkins" <marduk@letterboxes.org> writes:
> This is just a minimal Gentoo install, I have specialized appliances as
> well.
where?
11-27-2011, 11:10 AM
"Albert W. Hopkins"
Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload
On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 08:48 +0530, Vishnupradeep wrote:
> Albert W. Hopkins, is that 64bit or 32bit ?
It si 64-bit. Though conceivably the build process could build 32-bit
appliances, I haven't yet tried it.
Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload
