Re: Packaging virtual machine images .ova?
Arno Töll:
> On 02.03.2013 14:34, adrelanos wrote:
>> "What about having let's say for example an OpenBSD virtual machine
>> image in Debian repository?"
>
> At least for Debian proper that's highly unlikely, because you'd need to
> build the image from source and make sure its DFSG compliant, which is
> pretty hard to show for full disk images.
There is a tool grml-debootstrap (in Debian) and using that tool, at
least creating Debian images isn't very difficult.
I haven't looked yet so much what tools other distributions offer for VM
image creation.
> If you want to do it yourself and put it to a private repository, there
> is nothing to stop you. In fact, it's easy just to install an image to
> any given location through a package. However, be aware that updates in
> the package /will/ overwrite the image, and that's typically not what
> people expect when they start to write to virtual machine disk images
> during the guest system runs.
Yes. There is the .ova and the user has to decide if they want to import
the new .ova or do that later. Downloading the .ova image doesn't do
anything on it's own, only when it gets used it creates a virtual
machine description file and .vdi image in /home/.
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