[K12OSN] vmware images..
John Lucas
mrjohnlucas at gmail.com
Sat Jun 2 12:41:59 UTC 2007
On Friday 01 June 2007 12:32, Huck wrote:
> anyone know how to package them up for distribution?
>
> I've about completed a vanilla Koha 2.2.9 install...
> but am unsure of how to make the virtual machine available.
>
> create'n it in vmware server
>
One trick is to keep the size of the VM as small as possible. So here are some
steps to take to make it small:
- use the smallest virtual disk that is practical
- don't pre-allocate disks
- keep installation sizes as small as practical
- install VMWare Tools (for disk shrinking)
- shrink the virtual disk prior to archiving (in order):
- in VMWare Server: select VM and then: Edit/Hard Disk/Defragment
- in VM run vmware-toolbox and shrink the drive
- In order of compression effectiveness, use one of these:
- zip archive
- gzipped tarball
- bzip2ed tarball
The regular zip archives are the most portable. All archiving performed with
the VM turned off.
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