[FREE] Barebones Gentoo VirtualBox image with X/KDE

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vfxectropy · Post by **vfxectropy** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 6:56 am

Hello all! I put together a virtualBox Gentoo guest template to act as a jumping off point for setting up all my dev environments. Yes, anyone can technically do it but it's several hours of reading/work/waiting to get it right so I figured I'd save some people a bit of time.
I'm distributing it via torrent here:
http://www.demonoid.me/files/details/2686001/4369002/

Sorry if this constitutes as advertising... It's an honest bid to give away a a virtual disk image.

Here's the description I attached to the torrent:

This is a VirtualBox image. You'll need to download and install Oracle's
(free) VirtualBox software:

Gentoo Hosts:
emerge -av virtualbox

Windows/mac/other Linux hosts:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

*********************** READ THIS FIRST *****************************
IMPORTANT NOTE BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE:
the "root" and "vboxuser" password in the vbox image are both "blowitup" without quotes.
You'll need this to both log in and make changes to the system!
*OTHER IMPORTANT NOTE NOT IN THE README*
You'll want to increase your virtual video ram above the default of 8 mb...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ READ THE ABOVE FIRST ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

To install this disk image:
0) Extract the image using 7zip, Install/fire up VirtualBox
1) Click the blue "New" button,
2) Pick a name for your box. If it has Gen or Gentoo in the title, VBox autofills the next step.
3) Pick operating system "Linux" and Version "Gentoo" and click "Next"
4) Allocate as much ram as you think you'll need. If you're only using the desktop environment to learn
KDE/Linux, try for 512MB is fine. If you need additional software, allocate accordingly and click "Next".
5) Select "Use Existing Hard Disk" and navigate to/select the gentooBase disk image
6) Click Finish and "Start"!

Build Notes:
The Install itself is configured to work with 4 virtual cores. If you use less, edit your /etc/make.conf file's
MAKEOPTS to reflect the new count. I personally noticed that anything above allocating 4 cores to VirtualBox
on my workstation machine(16 logical cores) was unstable. Makes would fail/hang, kdm would freeze up and such.

Set your network device to be bridged before you boot and you the image should connect via it's virtual eth1
interface automatically. If not, set up a net connection, open a "konsole" and type "dhcpcd".

This is a barebones install with nothing but the kernel, virtualbox drivers, X, KDE,
a dhcp daemon, a system logger and chromium for net browsing(and their dependancies).
This package was meant to be a jumpoff point for creating Development environments.
INSTALLED PACKAGES:
# emerge -p world

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] app-arch/xz-utils-5.0.1
[ebuild R ] sys-devel/gnuconfig-20100924
[ebuild R ] sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5-r2
[ebuild R ] sys-devel/patch-2.5.9
[ebuild R ] app-arch/bzip2-1.0.6
[ebuild R ] app-arch/cpio-2.11
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/which-2.20
[ebuild R ] net-misc/dhcpcd-5.2.12
[ebuild R ] sys-kernel/module-rebuild-0.5
[ebuild R ] app-emulation/virtualbox-additions-3.2.12
[ebuild R ] sys-fs/reiserfsprogs-3.6.21
[ebuild R ] sys-devel/flex-2.5.35
[ebuild R ] virtual/os-headers-0
[ebuild R ] sys-devel/m4-1.4.15
[ebuild R ] virtual/man-0
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/coreutils-8.7
[ebuild R ] virtual/dev-manager-0
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/findutils-4.4.2
[ebuild R ] sys-devel/make-3.82
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/baselayout-2.0.2
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/grep-2.5.4-r1
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/kbd-1.15
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/busybox-1.17.4
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20110409135728
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/gawk-3.1.8
[ebuild R ] app-arch/tar-1.23-r2
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/file-5.05
[ebuild R ] virtual/editor-0
[ebuild R ] virtual/ssh-0
[ebuild R ] app-arch/gzip-1.4
[ebuild R ] net-misc/wget-1.12-r3
[ebuild R ] virtual/pager-0
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/diffutils-3.0
[ebuild R ] virtual/libc-0
[ebuild R ] kde-base/kdebase-meta-4.6.3
[ebuild R ] x11-terms/xterm-269
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/sed-4.2.1
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.12-r1
[ebuild R ] sys-devel/binutils-2.20.1-r1
[ebuild R ] sys-devel/bison-2.4.3
[ebuild R ] net-misc/rsync-3.0.8
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/man-pages-3.28
[ebuild R ] net-misc/iputils-20100418-r1
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/shadow-4.1.4.3
[ebuild R ] sys-block/partitionmanager-1.0.3
[ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.10
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.10.3
[ebuild R ] virtual/package-manager-0
[ebuild R ] app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-3.2.12
[ebuild R ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.68
[ebuild R ] sys-devel/automake-1.11.1
[ebuild R ] sys-devel/libtool-2.2.10
[ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.10.2
[ebuild R ] app-admin/syslog-ng-3.2.4
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/dbus-1.4.12
[ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox-3.2.12
[ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-virtualbox-3.2.12
[ebuild R ] app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-3.2.12
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/texinfo-4.13
[ebuild R ] app-shells/bash-4.1_p9
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/util-linux-2.19.1
[ebuild R ] sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41.12
[ebuild N ] sys-libs/gpm-1.20.6 USE="(-selinux)"
[ebuild R ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.7-r7
[ebuild R ] sys-process/psmisc-22.12 USE="X*"
[ebuild R ] sys-libs/readline-6.1_p2
[ebuild R ] sys-process/procps-3.2.8-r2
[ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5 USE="gtk*"
[ebuild R ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.38-r6

SYSTEM NOTES:
GCC, KERNEL, GLIBC AND PORTAGE VERSIONS:
#emerge --version
Portage 2.1.10.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.38-gentoo-r6 x86_64)

DRIVE PARTITION SCHEME-
#/etc/fstab
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/sda3 / reiserfs noatime 0 1
/dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro 0 0

Post by **NeddySeagoon** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 5:50 pm

vfxectropy,

Please do not encourage your readers to download Virtualbox. They should use the ebuild instead.

vfxectropy · Post by **vfxectropy** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 6:04 pm

*Edited* (slightly)

mabi · Post by **mabi** » Fri Aug 05, 2011 10:10 am

vfxectropy: your link gives me error 500? Is the torrent still available? And: cool idea

forkboy · Post by **forkboy** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 12:08 pm

I'm trying to download this but it's taking a long, long time

Hans-Linux · Post by **Hans-Linux** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 1:22 am

Hi,

I downloaded and installed the image file. Works fine, except that the installation does not recognise the network card. ifconfig only shows the details of the localhost (127.0.0.1).

Please let me know how to configure the virtual machine for this image so I can access my LAN and install additional applications.

The lan specs are:
LAN: 192.168.0.0
DNS: 192.168.0.6
Gateway: 192.168.0.1
VirtualBox Host: 192.168.0.2
VirtualBox Gentoo: 192.168.0.9 Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (Bridged adapter eth0) driver: e1000

Gentoo installed from scratch (no X) works fine with the same configuration. Can't get X and KDE or Gnome to work when installing from scratch.

Regards
Hans

PS: the image is seeded by Transmission on my server.