Thanks for all of your suggestions. To be clear, I'm talking about creating an RPM of vanilla Karaf. If folks want to add thier application bundles to it, then I feel they should repackage thier own RPM.
Stephen, I looked at three vendors for creating and deploying my vapp. The basic item I considered was the ability to deploy on a low-end, but modern laptop. I want other folks to be able to duplicate what I did, so the minimum installation I found was 2 low-end laptops. And by low-end, I mean I went into best buy and bought the least expensive laptops they had. I ended up with a Dell Inspiron and a Toshiba Satellite. I reviewed three different cloud vendors: Citrix XenServer, VMWare Hypervisor, and Suse Studio. VMWare Hypervisor was ruled out because it requires a gigabit ethernet controller or a nic card capable of transmitting 1B/s. Despite this, I attempted to install it on my Toshiba Satellite, and it did not have drivers for my ethernet card. Suse Studio seemed viable, but it required an rpm of the applications I wanted to install in my virtuall appliance. XenServer did completely install on my Toshiba Satellite, and I am now configuring it. Because XenServer installed, I chose to move forward with that option. I hope that answers your question. Moving forward, my plan is to create rpm's containing Karaf, Cellar and Cave, and use those to create a virtual appliance. Because rpm's appear to be the deployment mechanism of choice for deploying applications to virtual appliances, I asked if the Karaf group would consider creating distributions in .rpm's. Stephen Evanchik wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:38 PM, mikevan <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Currently, we distribute Karaf as a tar.gz, and a zip. I'm finding that >> .rpm's are also a useful deployment mechanism. In fact, when creating >> virtual appliances, I continue seeing rpm's as an option (sometimes the >> only >> option) for uploading applications into the Vapp. With this in mind, >> should >> we be creating .rpm distributions of Karaf, Cellar, Cave, and the >> Webconsole? > > I work on a Karaf based product that ships as an RPM. It has been > great for the initial installation but maintenance has been > challenging to say the least. Respinning an RPM to do a patch or minor > release is not desirable and the product is searching for alternative > installation mechanisms. > > As an aside, since you mention vApp: are you using VMware Studio? I > know that it has a"limitation" that makes consuming non-RPM > installation units difficult. > > > Stephen > > > -- > Stephen Evanchik > http://stephen.evanchik.com > ----- Mike Van Mike Van's Open Source Technologies Blog -- View this message in context: http://karaf.922171.n3.nabble.com/Karaf-rpm-distribution-tp3357636p3358946.html Sent from the Karaf - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
