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?).
The list of packages installed are: http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/base-dist-package.lst The image is at: http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/base-dist.vmdk.bz2 It's a vmdk but I'm told it works with vbox. This is just a minimal Gentoo install, I have specialized appliances as well.
