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Re: Providing official virtualisation images of Debian



Hi there!

On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:46:47 +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:27:09AM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
>> I believe it's high time we start to providing Debian in form of official
>> virtualisation images.

While the Debian Events team mainly needs a BabelBox, it would be also
useful to have a standard and full Debian desktop that people at booths
can easily download, better *before* being at a booth, and show to
people.  We could also provide them in the BabelBox machine, so booth
organizers can just copy the images:

  <http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Events/DebianEventsBox>

>> How should the images be generated? 
>
> vmdebootstrap --image=debian-squeeze.img --size=4G \
>     --mirror=http://cdn.debian.net/debian --distribution=squeeze \
>     --enable-dhcp --root-password=password1 --user=tomjon/password \
>     --hostname=squeezebox --package=gnome
>
> That should get you started. Vary the packages as you wish, and
> see also the --customize option for futher tweaking.  
>
> (vmdebootstrap is not in Debian at this time, but see
> http://liw.fi/vmdebootstrap/ for the home page, and help with
> packaging if you start using it, please.)

FWIW, this is needed with QEMU/KVM for the Debian Events Box, so if no
one wants to package it I will do that.

> It would probably be nice to have a debian-installer based way to
> generate the images, so they're as close to a real, installed system
> as possible, but vmdebootstrap (or one of the other similar tools)
> will do in a pinch.

This would be really appreciated.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

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