Enhanced Gentoo VM

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Building on the base release candidate vm I have created this alternative VM option.

The main enhancements are the inclusion of a frame buffer splash, VMware tools and a deep world update. As well as the addition of a few small Gentoo tools, with the view of keeping the VM lightweight.

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The virtual disk has also been shrunk, bringing the image down to 328 MB You can download the image from ftp.stonie.net

NB: Kernel sources and the portage cache have been removed to save on space, If you want to build your kernel you will need to emerge it.

[edit] Details of changes from the base VM

emerged mirror select

Emerged colordiff

emerge flagedit

Updated colordiff config

Ran emerge -tva -DNu world

Ran etc-update

emerge gentoolkit

emerged pciutils

Setup Framebuffer splash, external howto : [1]

enabled png and type support in splashutils

emerged splashutils

Configured kernel for a frame buffer splash

Changed resolution to 1024x768

Recovered disk space, external howto : [2] blew away temp files and kernel source.

Installed VMWARE tools as per these instructions, external howto : [3]

Shrank Vm with Vm shrink, external howto : [4]

--Stonie 02:11, 21 January 2008 (PST)