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, -- +----------------------------[ Joe.Kazura at UNH.EDU ]---+ | Joe Kazura | Mac OS X ... | CIS/TCS -- 1 Leavitt Lane PHONE: +1-603-862-2012 | Because UNIX | University of New Hampshire | should be user | Durham, NH 03824-3512 USA "docendo discimus" | friendly! | | +-----------------[ http://www.unh.edu/tcs/ ]---------+ 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20070125/260e71ad/attachment-0007.html>