> Did you zero out > the virtual disk before exporting? There is trash in the unused virtual > disk sectors that impacts compression. > > IMHO the most important thing is not cutting down the VM to the minimal > size, but making it easily maintainable by having a script that spits out a > new OVA without user interaction...
Sure, must be bit trash on the virtual disk! I try to use flexible virtual disks, they are slower in the beginning, but they will occupy less space on the disk. Might be important for people who "just want to try". Of course you are right with the auto generation feature. Size is not everything, but I saw the latest download statistics published by H. Schilly on sage-marketing and the virtual images rank very prominent (I think 5k downloads). For those who "just want to try" my guess is "smaller size=less intimating". I managed to split the compressed filesystem into sage and the base distro, so its now a matter of copying in a new sage version to be up to date again. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
