Re: [gentoo-user] Facilities for creating Gentoo Linux based virtual appliances

2010-08-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 23:53 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > I did a Google search for "kvm mailing list" and came up with > > http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Lists,_IRC. The first list seems to be > > pretty active from what I saw from the Gmane archives. > > I did that search before asking. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Facilities for creating Gentoo Linux based virtual appliances

2010-08-01 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 12:25:37AM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote > On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 22:14 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > Do you know of any active end-user mailing lists or forums for > > QEMU-KVM? I've found a few forums that seem to have a post every other > > month. There's a developers

Re: [gentoo-user] Facilities for creating Gentoo Linux based virtual appliances

2010-07-31 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 22:14 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > Do you know of any active end-user mailing lists or forums for > QEMU-KVM? I've found a few forums that seem to have a post every other > month. There's a developers' mailing list, but I don't see one for end > users. I got into QEMU-KVM

Re: [gentoo-user] Facilities for creating Gentoo Linux based virtual appliances

2010-07-31 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 08:47:48PM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote > https://bitbucket.org/marduk/virtual-appliance > > The Makefile pretty much does an install into a chroot, pretty much by > the handbook, with a few alterations where I saw fit. It hast some > variables and a couple of hooks to all

Re: [gentoo-user] Facilities for creating Gentoo Linux based virtual appliances

2010-07-29 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 13:15 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: [...] > Wow, Albert, this looks very, very cool. I have heard of using 'make' > and creating your own make files to do things like this, but after a few > minutes of perusing these files I realize this is just way over my head, > at least without

Re: [gentoo-user] Facilities for creating Gentoo Linux based virtual appliances

2010-07-29 Thread Tanstaafl
Top posting because I can't contribute anything meaningful inline... Wow, Albert, this looks very, very cool. I have heard of using 'make' and creating your own make files to do things like this, but after a few minutes of perusing these files I realize this is just way over my head, at least with

[gentoo-user] Facilities for creating Gentoo Linux based virtual appliances

2010-07-28 Thread Albert Hopkins
Hello, For a while I have been assembling methods for myself to be able to easily create Gentoo-based virtual appliances. I have worked with Ubuntu's vmbuilder scripts and basically wanted the same or similar ease of use with Linux. To make a long story short, I threw together a Makefile which b