Some thoughts about bootstrap for VM's

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Hi.
I use Gentoo as guest OS on some VMs, and I think that for easier deployment & maintenance it'll be good to add at least 2 things:
1) Include net-fs/nfs-utils in the stage3 (without this ebuild it's impossible to mount portage tree via NFS)
2) Create some "bootstrap" tarball, with precompiled (adapted for VM, or more generic modular) stable kernel and GRUB, for easy automated deployment of VMю
Also this things IMHO will be useful for deployment OS on real servers - because it'll take much less time for deployment of minimal working environment, and deployment will take less human's time.
Now I make my own 'bootstrap' tarball, with kernel, grub, nfs-utils and some other small, but useful stuff, but it requires to be periodically updated, which isn't enough comfortable - I still make it manually. So I have a question - is it possible to add this features into main repository? If yes - I'll try to help to create automated scripts for building bootstrap.

[Rexilion]

You might ask on IRC where all the developers hang out. I think your chances of succeeding are very slim, the stage3 are to provide a basic environment for building a Gentoo system. If they were to include everything everyone wants, then Gentoo could just as well provide stage4 tarballs right away.

[yngwin]

I think providing some kind of "stage4" tarballs or VM images might be a good addition. I don't think our release team would be very interested in this (altho it wouldn't hurt to ask), but individual initiatives are welcome. I know there were some individual projects (by either devs or users) in the past, but I'm not up to date on their status.
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