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Contents 1 How is the GentooVM configured (i.e. what packages are installed)? 2 How do I set my timezone? 3 How do I specify glibc locales? 4 How do I set up networking?

[edit] How is the GentooVM configured (i.e. what packages are installed)?

The Gentoo Handbook was followed very closely with the exception of some steps being skipped because of their user specific nature.

More information regarding the virtual machine's configuration can be found on the Configuration Details page.

If you're looking to perform in depth customization of the virtual machine, I would recommend starting with the kernel configuration:

# cd /usr/src/linux
# make menuconfig

Further instructions regarding kernel compilation can be found in the Gentoo Handbook: Configuring the Kernel (Manual Configuration).

[edit] How do I set my timezone?

• By default, the virtual machine is set to UTC.

Details can be found in the Gentoo Handbook: Configuring the Kernel.

# ls /usr/share/zoneinfo
# cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/TIMEZONE /etc/localtime
# nano -w /etc/conf.d/clock

[edit] How do I specify glibc locales?

• The stock virtual machine is configured with en_US ISO-8859-1 and en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8.

# nano -w /etc/locale.gen
# locale-gen

[edit] How do I set up networking?

I couldn't find a way to get networking to work!

• There appears to be no kernel sources included
• There is no network card driver (at least that I can find)
• It's therefore impossible to download a network card driver or sources to build one