[Glass] GLASS appliance (VMWare virtual machine) still available?

[Johan Brichau]

Norbert,

Aha... I did not know about this.
Yes! that is very interesting. 

Will investigate this...

On 14 Nov 2013, at 11:35, Norbert Hartl <norbert at hartl.name> wrote:

> Quite interesting that there wasn’t any reply to this mail. So there is no interest in having an up-to-date appliance?
> 
> Norbert
> 
> Am 07.11.2013 um 09:52 schrieb Norbert Hartl <norbert at hartl.name>:
> 
>> I like to remember that there is still my virtual-gemstone [1] project. At the moment it builds on virtualbox but as your relationship to vmware is less tight these days :) that shouldn’t be a problem. 
>> 
>> So what it does basically is:
>> 
>> - It uses a project called veewee [2] to boostrap a virtual machine from a description file. Meaning you specify in a text file the memory size, disk, size and operation system and veewee builds the virtual machine and installs the basic OS
>> - veewee also installs chef [3] at the end
>> - this basic installation box is handed over to a tool called vagrant [4]
>> - vagrant configures the box copies recipes for chef in the box and runs chef
>> - chef recipes install system packages, download gemstone, install gemstone, install seaside in gemstone, etc.
>> 
>> So you can go from nothing but a couple of text files to a ready installed virtual appliance having gemstone installed and running. The deal with chef is even in a way that you can overlay the virtual-gemstone recipes with your own to build a machine that is tight to your needs. The real magic goes where you can exchange the operating system beneath just by changing one text file and run the whole stuff again. 
>> 
>> If you are interested in keeping the project up and running I would welcome this. If there is a greater interest I might find the time to maintain it to a certain extent.
>> 
>> Norbert
>> 
>> [1] https://github.com/noha/virtual-gemstone
>> [2] https://github.com/jedi4ever/veewee
>> [3] http://www.opscode.com/chef/
>> [4] http://www.vagrantup.com/
>> Am 05.11.2013 um 21:03 schrieb Dale K. Henrichs <dale.henrichs at gemtalksystems.com>:
>> 
>>> It was too much work to maintain the appliance ... we never got to the point of completely automating the building of the appliance...
>>> 
>>> I recommend that you use the installGemStone.sh script[1]. You supply the GemStone version number as an argument and the script does the rest, installing GemStone in /opt/gemstone. Then you follow the starting gemstone instructions[2]... This script works on all supported platforms and installs GemStone in a predictable manner. 
>>> 
>>> Dale
>>> 
>>> [1] http://seaside.gemtalksystems.com/scripts/installGemstone.sh
>>> [2] https://code.google.com/p/glassdb/wiki/StartingANativeStone
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> | From: "Craig Latta" <craig at netjam.org>
>>> | To: glass at lists.gemtalksystems.com
>>> | Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2013 10:54:59 AM
>>> | Subject: [Glass] GLASS appliance (VMWare virtual machine) still available?
>>> | 
>>> | 
>>> | Hi--
>>> | 
>>> |      As I recall, there used to be a "GLASS appliance" available, a
>>> | VMWare virtual machine that had GLASS already installed and
>>> | self-contained. Is that still around online somewhere?
>>> | 
>>> | 
>>> |      thanks!
>>> | 
>>> | -C
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