[Neurodebian-devel] neurodebian virtual machine / re-branding / source / wheezy

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

oh guys -- you are ruining my perfect sick day, where I have decided to really
be sick and just lay in bed, drink hot tea and wait for head stop spinning and
the voice production come back to me... but it is even more painful to
see someone falling into the trap you unintentionally built... ;)

those scripts should work ... on our compute server ;-)  There are two
very custom  pieces of the setup:

1. apache server serving vm/d-i directory

   that is used to provide corresponding presseed.cfg by feeding
   'auto=hydra' to d-i prompt at the beginning (very ad-hoc but seems to
   work), and then to provide initial_setup script

   so just grep for hydra to see those places you might need to tune

2. for speed we use approx apt cacher, so first packages are fetched
   from there -- look for 10.0.0.1:9999 and replace accordingly.

if you could work on pulling those configurational aspects out -- that would be
great!

otherwise, for wheezy, look for TODOs

$> grep TODO d-i/wheezy/initial_setup 
# TODO: neurodebian-guest-additions
# TODO: autologin for lightdm (autologin-user=brain in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf), default panel (with chromium) for xfce

I started to collect... We decided to go with XFCE instead of the
heavy-weight/3D-demanding/etc gnome3 which is the default.  I remember
that the setup was already somewhat working -- i.e. we were getting a VM
appliance with wheezy. and there were only outstanding TODOs on the list ;)

Hope this would be of some help!

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Tiziano Zito wrote:

> > Cool (although I cannot access the webpage, so I don't know what kind of
> > guys you are ;-)

> That's a temporary glitch :)

> > All of that stuff should be GPLv3 (or the respective license of the
> > packages, hence at least DFSG-compliant). Therefore I guess the answer
> > must be: Sure!

> Great!


> > Yarik pushed a wheezy-vm branch yesterday (good timing!). If you happen
> > to try it out and iron out some bugs your PR is, of course, most
> > welcome.

> I am now trying to make my way through the scripts to understand
> what I need to change and what I need to set up in order to get it
> to run on my machine. I forked on github, so expect some PRs in case
> I find out something useful. 
> I would still have one question for Yarik: are the scripts in the wheezy-vm branch 
> working for you? This way I can be sure that whatever error I get
> depends on wrong configuration on my part... 

> > If you start distributing the image, it would be very nice of you to send
> > us a link, so we can add you to:

> >   http://neuro.debian.net/derivatives.html

> I will do as soon as I have something that works.

> Ciao,
> Tiziano


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