On 26/07/11 at 00:27 +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > Hi, > I believe it's high time we start to providing Debian in form of official > virtualisation images. In contrast to the ISOs currently provided it > allows a quicker evaluation/testing of Debian (and can also be very > useful for testing (e.g. someone wrote on debian-release that he doesn't have > access to oldstable/stable systems, with prepared virtualisation > images that would no longer be an issue). For many setups this could even > replace the installer since software selection and hostname can easily > be tweaked post-install. > > I think it's sufficient for starters to provide images for stable > (they can be updated for every few point updates if needed). > > What virtualisation solutions should be supported? > - Virtual Box seems like a natural candidate since it's free and > included since Squeeze. > - Vmware has a significant installed base and is relevant, although > proprietary > - Microsoft Virtual PC is likely also needed > - Qemu > - Citrix XenServer?
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