On 08/20/2016 04:56 PM, Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku wrote: > I am looking to create a virtual machine which I can use to test to see > about my development efforts (currently with LedgerSMB) and getting > appropriate ebuild files created on a base install. I currently have no > virtualization software installed on the main development machine, so > that is as of now, largely irrelevant, but in the future I would like to > have the possibility of hosting my built boxes "in the cloud" so if > there is any virtualization system which likely would make that easier > (or at least not more difficult) that may be a factor. > > Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku >
As many would likely tell you, it depends on what sort of development you intend on doing. To start, I suggest qemu and KVM. They're libre software and there's a GUI frontend if you don't feel like manual configuration or shell scripting. I've used it to build a completely free/libre Gentoo installation, which I intend to use on a laptop in the future. Our wiki has some decent pages on qemu and KVM. If the image files are the correct format (I'm not sure what format cloud providers prefer), they should work just fine. I would focus on using the correct image format and then building what some call a stage4. I think there are more tools for creating stage4s, but ultimately that's what you and I both are looking at: ready-to-go Gentoo installs that come with some needed software. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6
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