Re: VMWare image for running/developing Django

[Joseph Heck]

Ah - brilliant. (Thanks for the "Shrink" tip - I looked around and couldn't find anywhere to invoke it up). That's got it down to just at 1Gb.

-joe

On 8/4/06, Joseph Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Cool - I'll give it a go right now and check...

-joe

On 8/4/06, Jay Parlar < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On 8/4/06, Joseph Heck < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> For those interested, I've worked up a VMWare image. It's 1.2Gb (zipped),
> and I'm <i>SLOWLY</i> transfering it around so that we can get it hosted via
> BitTorrent with Jacob's assistance.
>
> In the meantime if you are really, really anxious to get rolling with it...
> I posted up the recipe for how I created the image on my blog: <a href="">> http://www.rhonabwy.com/wp/2006/08/04/making-a-django-development-imge-for-vmware/">Making
> a django development image for VMWare</a>.
>
> Hopefully y'all will like it and it will be reasonably useful. I'd love any
> feedback on improving the recipe, etc. In the image, I've included all three
> supported DB and libraries, Apache and mod_python, VMWare tools, SPE as an
> editor, and a basic structure with an apache config file you can basically
> drop right into /etc/apache2/conf/sites-enabled to get rolling.
>


Joseph: Very cool!

What about the VMWare shrink though? If you log into your VM session
as root, and run 'vmware-toolbox', you'll get a GTK (or maybe Tk,
can't remember) program that will let you run a "shrink". After
shrinking, your image will be about half size.  You can then zip that,
and you should get it to half again.

Our images here go from 3GB before shrink, to about 1.3 after shrink,
to about 700megs after zipping it.

Oh, and the link you gave is wrong, it should be:
http://www.rhonabwy.com/wp/2006/08/04/making-a-django-development-image-for-vmware/

(you had forgotten the "a" in "image", but I'm sure most people can
figure that out).

Jay P.

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