[CoLoCo] JeOS

[W S]

"We use VMware quite a bit around here.  And some of may remember from
> > the Ubuntucon that I run a VM of Windows on my Ubuntu laptop to have
> > access to Visio. "

Just curious, but have you tried Codeweavers?  I know I've run Visio
successfully in the past using their product.

As a bonus, anyone remember using Visio before they were bought out by
Microsoft? :)

Regards,
Will

On Nov 9, 2007 7:23 AM, Neal McBurnett <neal at bcn.boulder.co.us> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 11:59:29AM -0700, Neal McBurnett wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 09:06:00AM -0600, Kevin Fries wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 10:27 -0400, Michael Haney wrote:
> > > > On 10/9/07, Kevin Fries <kfries at cctus.com> wrote:
> > > > > Has anyone tried JeOS ("Juice") yet?  Impressions?
> > >
> > > JeOS is an Ubuntu flavor designed for VMs.
> > >
> > > http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-jeos
> > >
> > > We use VMware quite a bit around here.  And some of may remember from
> > > the Ubuntucon that I run a VM of Windows on my Ubuntu laptop to have
> > > access to Visio.  So virtualization is a big issue around here.
> > >
> > > I would love to know if anyone else tried this and their impressions,
> > > gotcha lists, neat feature list, etc before I start digging in myself.
> >
> > Sitting here at UDS-Boston, I hear the gutsy version of JeOS will be
> > out "real soon now" in the standard repos :-) See also
> >
> >  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-jeos/
> >
> > for the ubuntu-jeos-builder code.
>
> There is a pretty active forum thread here on jeos, which
> gets more helpful around page 4:
>
>  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=549222&page=4
>
> I've had good luck with the builder script in ubuntu-jeos.
> Only about 2 minutes to build and start running a fresh new
> custom VM under qemu!
>
> I uploaded my own "nealmcb" branch with qemu support:
>
> https://code.launchpad.net/~nealmcb/ubuntu-jeos/nealmcb
>
> You can just browse that code base and grab the ubuntu-jeos-builder
> shell script and run it anywhere, after getting the dependencies
> (qemu, debootstrap, parted).  But the code didn't make it in time for
> gutsy, so someone (maybe me :-) should put it up in a ppa so folks can
> just install it like normal....
>
> This is a command line I've used with that (after installing
> apt-catcher which caches apts and dramatically speeds up subsequent
> apt-gets that debootstrap does). It uses ts (from the moreutils
> package) to timestamp each line of output:
>
> sudo ubuntu-jeos-builder -t /dev/shm --addpkg openssh-server --mirror http://localhost:3142/archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu --vm qemu 2>&1 | ts %H:%M:%S > jb.out
>
> cd ubuntu-jeos-gutsy-i386
> ./launchjeos -redir tcp:2222::22 -monitor stdio
>
> ssh ubuntu at localhost -p 2222
>
> A "jeos" iso will be showing up in gutsy at some point, but I don't
> recommend it - a relatively slow, painful install with cdrom
> workarounds etc.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/
>
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