Re: [Unattended] VMWare Appliance

2007-08-07 Thread Will Sheldon
On 07/08/07, Will Sheldon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gerhard Hofmann wrote: > >>con: quite a big file to distribute, any minor change would > >>mean to repackage and redistribute the whole thing > > What about Jigdo? It allows you download only the changed parts of a > large file. It's

Re: [Unattended] VMWare Appliance

2007-08-07 Thread Will Sheldon
> Gerhard Hofmann wrote: >>con: quite a big file to distribute, any minor change would >>mean to repackage and redistribute the whole thing What about Jigdo? It allows you download only the changed parts of a large file. It's how Debian had been distributing ISO's for a couple of years now

Re: [Unattended] VMWare Appliance

2007-08-06 Thread Mario Gzuk
Hi! Am Montag, den 06.08.2007, 09:15 +0200 schrieb Gerhard Hofmann: > Peter Varga wrote: > > Has anyone thought about creating and maintaining a VMWare Virtual > > Appliance (especially for ESX)? > > > > Hi Peter, > > creating some kind of Unattended appliance is a nice idea and I have > serio

Re: [Unattended] VMWare Appliance

2007-08-06 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Mario Gzuk wrote: > Hi! > > Gerhard Hofmann wrote: >> There are two types of appliances I could imagine: >> - creating a complete virtual machine with Linux + Samba >>+ install share >>pro: very easy to get it running >>con: quite a big file to distribute, any minor change would >>

Re: [Unattended] VMWare Appliance

2007-08-06 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Peter Varga wrote: > Has anyone thought about creating and maintaining a VMWare Virtual > Appliance (especially for ESX)? > Hi Peter, creating some kind of Unattended appliance is a nice idea and I have serious interest in creating (or contributing to) such an appliance. The appliance should b

Re: [Unattended] VMWare Appliance

2007-07-21 Thread Will Sheldon
Hi Peter, I have thought about trying to do it. I am running my unattended install on ESX atm, and am about to move it over to (recreate it on) a fresh deb install ready for production use. I'd be happy to share once I have finished (in a couple of weeks). We would need to create an install scrip

[Unattended] VMWare Appliance

2007-07-21 Thread Peter Varga
Has anyone thought about creating and maintaining a VMWare Virtual Appliance (especially for ESX)? Right now we have only one choice and it's called "ultimate deployment appliance". And frankly, it doesn't seem to work as well as "Unattended" Maybe with some enhancements around managing the ima