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

Wed Feb 11 16:05:25 PST 2015

> Am 11.02.2015 um 23:38 schrieb Dale Henrichs <dale.henrichs at gemtalksystems.com>:
> 
> Norbert,
> 
> I am aware of your work...
> 
> Last summer I started work on GsDevKitHome[1], which defines a disk structure for laying down multiple stones on disk plus supporting disk-based infrastructure ... and I'm in the death throes of getting another GsDevKitHome release out the door ...
> 
> In the fullness of time, I expect that GsDevKitHome will get to the point where I can blow the dust off of your work and merge GsDevKitHome with it ...
> 
> If someone wants to step up and modernize Norberts approach and merge with GsDevKitHome, I'd be more than happy to see that done (I'd even help where I could)... but if you are going to wait for me to do it ... then we're back to the "fullness of time":)
> 
My gemstone time at the moment is close to zero. But if someone steps up I'm happy to mentor the things that have to be done regarding veewee, vagrant, chef. It isn't as horrible as it sounds. And now that vmware is not a blocker anymore using virtualbox is a feasible approach ;)

Norbert

> Dale
> 
> [1] https://github.com/GsDevKit/gsDevKitHome <https://github.com/GsDevKit/gsDevKitHome>
> 
> On 02/11/2015 02:19 PM, Norbert Hartl wrote:
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>>> Am 09.02.2015 um 16:37 schrieb Dale Henrichs via Glass <glass at lists.gemtalksystems.com <mailto:glass at lists.gemtalksystems.com>>:
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>>> The appliance is no longer available so building your own vm is the best bet, as Bruno suggests.
>>> 
>>> I am in the process of putting together pretty comprehensive instructions for installing GemStone [1], but I haven't quite automated the os update process, but I do have manual instructions for preparing Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubunut14.04[2]. And eventually I will supply information about installing and configuration nginx and/or lighttpd .. there are folks on this list who use one or the other and I'm sure they can help with the configuration details.
>>> 
>> I know nobody is interested. But I don't understand why taking an approach like I did with virtual-gemstone [1] is not a good fit to produce applicances and make it possible for people to adjust their own. The stuff in the repository is quite old so I don't think it will run out of the box.
>> 
>> A short summary:
>> 
>> - you provide an iso image of your preferred linux distro
>> - veewee installs a basic linux
>> - it hands control over to vagrant 
>> - vagrant configures the system
>> - vagrant installs chef 
>> - chef uses the available recipes to install all the software you need
>> 
>> I made this up to installing nginx, gemstone, install seaside in gemstone, etc. If everything it is one command to invoke that spits out a read made virtual appliance that runs gemstone. I never did it but it is prepared so that you could generate the appliances from a jenkins server.
>> 
>> just saying,
>> 
>> Norbert
>> 
>> [1] https://github.com/noha/virtual-gemstone <https://github.com/noha/virtual-gemstone>
>> 
>>> Dale
>>> 
>>> [1] https://github.com/GsDevKit/gsDevKitHome#open-source-development-kit-for-gemstones-64-bit- <https://github.com/GsDevKit/gsDevKitHome#open-source-development-kit-for-gemstones-64-bit->
>>> [2] https://github.com/GsDevKit/gsDevKitHome/issues/22 <https://github.com/GsDevKit/gsDevKitHome/issues/22>
>>> On 2/8/15 11:21 PM, FrankB via Glass wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> I am looking for a working VMWare or VirtualBox appliance with GemStone
>>>> GLASS and Pharo installed, not necessarily the latest version, that I can
>>>> use to make some first acquaintance with GemStone.
>>>> 
>>>> Experience shows that it's not only an extreme waste of time and a highly
>>>> frustrating task having to go through the typically quite complex
>>>> installation hassle of a new development environment just because one would
>>>> like to have a closer look at it. In many cases, installation simply fails.
>>>> 
>>>> Therefore, I would really prefer to download some well prepared demo / test
>>>> / play virtual version.
>>>> 
>>>> Any link available?
>>>> 
>>>> Greetings
>>>> Frank
>>>> 
>>>> 
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