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

[Mariano Martinez Peck]

I would be interested as well. Mostly if I can enter in the process a bit
later (I would already have my own VirtualBox VM). But from there, it would
be cool :)



On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 5:03 AM, Norbert Hartl <norbert at hartl.name> wrote:

>
>
> Am 14.11.2013 um 22:09 schrieb "Dale K. Henrichs" <
> dale.henrichs at gemtalksystems.com>:
>
> Norbert,
>
> I was just going to send an email to you that I am interested in your
> project:) As I've mentioned elsewhere, I am caught up in internal
> development and tODE work at the moment, but I want to make room on my
> stack for working with you on this ... I am not an expert in this area, but
> I definitely see the value in having an appliance ....
>
> Ok, that is all I wanted to hear. No need to rush. I might prepare a
> description how it works at the moment and we can discus that to figure out
> the form the appliance should have.
>
> Norbert
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *From: *"Norbert Hartl" <norbert at hartl.name>
> *To: *"Dale K. Henrichs" <dale.henrichs at gemtalksystems.com>
> *Cc: *"GemStone Seaside beta discussion" <glass at lists.gemtalksystems.com>
> *Sent: *Thursday, November 14, 2013 2:35:34 AM
> *Subject: *Re: [Glass] GLASS appliance (VMWare virtual machine) still
> available?
>
> 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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