I've written up the process to create a Debian based virtual appliance for a Netrek Server, placing it in docs/README.debian-virtual-appliance in my repository, and attached. Unlike the previous post, this image is a mere 127Mb. ;-) One based on OpenWrt x86 should be about 3Mb. There's a lot of cruft in a standard Debian install. -- James Cameron mailto:quozl at us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ -------------- next part -------------- # HOWTO build a Debian based Netrek Server virtual appliance # by James Cameron, 2007-09-08 # # input: Debian netinst installation media, internet access. # # output: virtual appliance that runs a netrek server in bronco mode, # suitable for use by qemu, vmware, etc. qemu-img create -f vmdk debian-etch.vmdk 400M # build etch system from installation media # TODO: use /usr/sbin/qemu-make-debian-root instead qemu -hda debian-etch.vmdk -boot d -cdrom /dev/hda # root password netrek # reboot after installation qemu -hda debian-etch.vmdk -boot c -cdrom /dev/hda -redir tcp:8022::22 # install ssh for further access apt-get update apt-get install ssh # build a netrek virtual appliance using the debian system as input cp debian-etch.vmdk netrek-server.vmdk qemu -hda netrek-server.vmdk -boot c -cdrom /dev/hda -redir tcp:8022::22 # local shell customisation, set your proxy server here, optional export http_proxy=http://10.0.0.1:3128/ # reduce grub boot timer from five seconds to zero seconds sed 's/timeout\t\t5/timeout\t\t0/' < /boot/grub/menu.lst > /tmp/menu.lst && \ mv /tmp/menu.lst /boot/grub/menu.lst # install the netrek server package echo "deb http://quozl.linux.org.au/netrek ./" >> /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update apt-get install netrek-server-vanilla # add missing dependency apt-get install libgmp3c2 # configure netrek server to start on boot update-rc.d netrek-server-vanilla defaults # trim back packages installed apt-get remove --purge \ traceroute manpages usbutils acpid acpi info eject libsasl2 iptables \ installation-report netcat wget man-db groff-base dselect nano tasksel \ tasksel-data aptitude apt-utils console-common console-data console-tools \ libdb4.4 libsigc++-2.0-0c2a libconsole dmidecode # TODO: find other packages to remove, to cut down the space used # clean up apt-get clean poweroff # test boot the netrek server appliance qemu -hda netrek-server.vmdk -boot c -cdrom /dev/hda -redir tcp:8952::2592 -snapshot # compress the appliance cp netrek-server.vmdk netrek-server-vanilla-2.12.1-appliance.vmdk pbzip2 -v9 netrek-server-vanilla-2.12.1-appliance.vmdk # total 127Mb