I went ahead and built two small linux vms for my personal testing: (both can be downloadable from http://people.apache.org/~bhaisaab/vms)
tinycore.ova is ~9M image based on tinycore Linux 3.x release and requires at least 50M RAM tinycore-openbox.ova is ~29M and has openbox window manager Cheers. On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Rohit Yadav <rohityada...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Ian Duffy <i...@ianduffy.ie> wrote: > >> OK thank you. Will look into creating a packer file for it... Will have a >> dependency on qemu-img for converting to xen raw. I've yet to find a way >> to >> do this on osx. >> >> Do you know what had to be done to get it running in PV mode? >> > > It should work for PV as well, just install using the iso. For conversions > to various formats, you may see our appliance building script: > https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/blob/master/tools/appliance/build.sh > (hack but works, uses vbox, veewee and vhd-util) > > Regards. > > >> >> I've been looking at generating a Debian image too for those with more ram >> (256mb per VM). >> >> Ubuntu is out of the question at 512mb ram required. >> On 22 Jun 2014 06:50, "Rohit Yadav" <bhais...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> > Hi Ian, >> > >> > On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 5:43 AM, Ian Duffy <i...@ianduffy.ie> wrote: >> > >> > > Hey Rohit, >> > > >> > > Quick question for you about the ttylinux_vhd image. >> > > >> > > I'm just about to push some changes to allow for an advanced cloud >> > > configuration. While doing some final tests I found myself unable to >> > > resolve domains in VMs I brought up. >> > > >> > >> > It's very old (I don't know who made it, I just reused it from the first >> > DevCloud by Edison) and based on old linux 2.x, sometimes it fails to >> get >> > IP from dhcp (VR). Let's refresh it. >> > >> > >> > > >> > > On inspecting my resolv.conf on a ttylinux based machine I noticed the >> > > following: >> > > search citrite.net >> > > nameserver 10.216.4.31 >> > > nameserver 10.216.4.34 >> > > nameserver 10.9.47.59 >> > > nameserver 172.16.2.66 >> > > search cs2cloud.internal >> > > nameserver 10.1.1.1 >> > > nameserver 8.8.8.8 >> > > >> > > The first block of nameservers are taken precedence, from what I can >> tell >> > > they are hard coded into your image. >> > > >> > > Is there any easy way I could re-generate a ttylinux image without >> them? >> > > >> > >> > Yes, you may get the iso and make a vhd yourself: (use pc-486 or >> > appropriate) >> > http://www.ttylinux.net/Documents/User_Guide.html >> > >> > I idea was to build a very small linux image, I also recommend playing >> > with: >> > http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ >> > http://www.tinycorelinux.net/downloads.html (I've used this, installed >> > linux distro fits in 10MB :) >> > >> > Regards. >> > >> > >> > >> > > >> > > Thanks. >> > > >> > >> > >
