Re: [gentoo-user] Again about a gentoo vm appliance for vbox

2012-02-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-02-15 5:17 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: As you haven't done this recently (I do remember you having troubles a while back) I'm not sure what action you are asking me to take here. I've built a couple of Gentoo VMs on Virtualbox in the past and they both worked fine for me.

Re: [gentoo-user] Again about a gentoo vm appliance for vbox

2012-02-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-02-15 7:10 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: You described your frustration but never mentioned what it is you want. Is it a download source for a working appliance? Google will find one of those for you. I've looked and looked and never found one that I could

Re: [gentoo-user] Again about a gentoo vm appliance for vbox

2012-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:09:38 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2012-02-15 7:10 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: You described your frustration but never mentioned what it is you want. Is it a download source for a working appliance? Google will find one of those for you. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Again about a gentoo vm appliance for vbox

2012-02-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 16, 2012 7:12 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-02-15 5:17 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: As you haven't done this recently (I do remember you having troubles a while back) I'm not sure what action you are asking me to take here. I've built a couple

[gentoo-user] Again about a gentoo vm appliance for vbox

2012-02-15 Thread Harry Putnam
I've never yet managed to build a booting vm with gentoo. Probably my own fault, but I don't want to wrangle and study and diddle around endlessly. Which appears to be what it takes for me anyway. This is a i7 64 bit system using semi newish and common sata disks (WD 500GB [black]), and I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Again about a gentoo vm appliance for vbox

2012-02-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: I've never yet managed to build a booting vm with gentoo.  Probably my own fault, but I don't want to wrangle and study and diddle around endlessly.  Which appears to be what it takes for me anyway. This is a i7 64 bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Again about a gentoo vm appliance for vbox

2012-02-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:07:48 -0500 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: I've never yet managed to build a booting vm with gentoo. Probably my own fault, but I don't want to wrangle and study and diddle around endlessly. Which appears to be what it takes for me anyway. This is a i7 64