Re: Vagrant boxes debian 32 bits

[Romain Garbage <romain.garbage@gmail.com>]

Hi Emmanuel,

Le vendredi 24 février 2017, Emmanuel Kasper <manu@debian.org> a écrit :
> Hi Romain
>
> >> On 02/23/2017 12:39 AM, Romain Garbage wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I would like to know if the TeamCloud plans to also provide 32 bit images
> >>> of Debian as Vagrant boxes on Atlas ?
> >>>
> >>> If it is of interest, I attach you a .json file that I adapted from
> >>> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/cloud/debian-vm-
> >> templates.git/tree/packer-virtualbox-vagrant/contrib-jessie.json
> >>> to make a 32 bit image. I couldn't test it as I don't have a 64 bit
> >> system
> >>> and the documentation states that a 64 bit system is necessary to use
> >>> import2vbox.
> >>>
> >>> Have a nice day,
> >>> Romain
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> Do you mind if we continue the discussion in public on the debian-cloud
> >> mailing list so people can give their feedback ?
> >>
>
> > No problem!! I didn't even think about sending that to the mailing list, I
> > just saw your name on the Debian Wiki and decided to write you about this!
> > Feel free to forward my mail to the mailing list! I will join it to follow
> > the discussion, can you put me in copy in the meantime so I don't miss
> > anything?
>
> Thank for your interest in Vagrant boxes.
>
> What is exactly your use case for 32 bits Vagrant boxes ?

The Yunohost project uses your Vagrant boxes as a base to build up development boxes (see https://github.com/YunoHost/Vagrantfile repo). I submitted a patch to add 32bit support to their environment, as I have an oldish 32bit laptop and thus cannot run 64bit boxes. For now I built the 32bit boxes from the Bento image because I didn't find an official 32 bit Debian. I was wondering why there were not such images, so I sent you an email. As it looked to me very straightforward to adapt the json to 32bit, I attached it with my first email in case it was of interest.

> We currently build 7 Vagrant build images (3 VirtualBox, 2 LXC, 2
> Libvirt) all of them 64 bits. Adding 32 bits on top would be bit a bit
> of work, especially since not that much of the build process for new
> releases is automated.

I understand perfectly this issue and it answers all my interrogations.

 

> I see everyday more software dropping 32 bits support (RHEL 7, MongoDB,
> Proxmox PVE all require 64 bit hardware) so I am not that much looking
> forward having extra work which will be deprecated in two years.
>
> If the issue is important to you, open a bug on the debian-cloud pseudo
> package in the BTS with the wishlist priority so the issue is properly
> tracked.

As I said in the 1st paragraph, for the moment I don't have any particularly urging need to have an official 32bit image, I think it will be fine with the Bento image.

Thank you very much for your answer and for having brought up the existing images !

Romain

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