25 Jan
2007
25 Jan
'07
5:28 p.m.
Hey Folks,
I'll be happy to provide an image for Parallels Desktop Macintosh! (I am pretty sure the file is portable to the OTHER releases of Parallels Workstation.
FWIW: this a virtual machine for Intel based Macs allowing them to run ANY Intel based OS as a virtual machine.
I've been meaning to do this for my own consumption, but doing it as a project will motivate me! ;-)
Cheers,
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On Jan 25, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Hi Nils,
>
> Nils Toedtmann wrote:
>> Dear CentOS developers,
>> there is a demand for ready-to-boot virtual machine images for
>> distros
>> like CentOS. Since i am an afinicado of CentOS and Xen, i would
>> like to
>> build and maintain a CentOS5-image. Is centos.org interested in
>> hosting
>> such a sub-project? Testing and tasting CentOS would get much
>> easier, it
>> would help making CentOS more popular.
>
> Sounds interesting, and going by just the amount of times such
> questions get asked, I'd say there were a fair few people
> interested in this as well.
>
>> Planned features:
>
> <- lots of interesting stuff ->
>
>> Different flavors:
>
> <- lots of interesting stuff ->
>
>> RoadMap:
>> * wait for CentOS5-beta2 ;-)
>
> Why ?
>
> CentOS-4 is in quite a decent shape to make it into VM's and _lots_
> people are going to want VM's for CentOS-3 ( Q: Why? A: I can
> imagine that lots of people who run CentOS are going to want to
> move to CentOS-5 for its newer hardware support and better
> performance on very high end machines ). It makes much sense to
> move the host to C5 and have VM's run the C3/ C4 roles.
>
> One of the things on the ToDo list here is a document for a known
> process to help with this migration -> Move a C3/C4 machine into a
> VM under C5, so that your C3/C4 apps remain supported and function
> as they do now, while still getting the added benefit of C5 on the
> host.
>
>> * create and post a minimal CentOS5-beta2 i386 image with xen- and
>> vmware configs, wait for reviews/bugreport
>> * create and post a standard desktop CentOS5-beta2 i386 image, wait
>> for reviews/bugreport
>
> Once there is a basic setup and required infrastructure in place,
> doing roles is just a question of adding some more details to
> scripts etc, I am sure there are many roles we can address like this.
>
>> * if there are enough positive reports, repeat for CentOS5-final
>
> We are really not interested in doing / spending time on something
> that is not going to be there for CentOS-5/Release - so if you are
> getting involved, do so with the intent of seeing this through.
>
>> * release when/if centos.org is pleased with the (bugfixed) images
>
> yes, we have a QA team now!
>
>> Are you interested in such a project? I am eager for comments.
>
> You have my attention and I am happy to push this along from the
> inside, but if we are going to do this - lets try and cover the
> spectrum, not just focus on C5 ( specially taking on board what
> Daniel has said, C5 VM's are trivial once you have the C5 host
> running ) - One (of the many ) places where users are going to see
> really good benefit is when we can provide some alternatives to
> move their C3 / C4 machines into.
>
> Still interested ?
>
> - KB
>
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