vmware image

[Dustin Kirkland]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Stelian Iancu <reg at iancu.ch> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Dustin Kirkland <kirkland at canonical.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Stelian Iancu <reg at iancu.ch> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark at ubuntu.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On 10/12/14 11:32, Stelian Iancu wrote:
>> >> > Hi all,
>> >> >
>> >> > I've managed to convert the KVM image to a vmware vmdk file by
>> >> > installing
>> >> > the qemu-kvm package on Ubuntu 14.04 and running the following
>> >> > command:
>> >> >
>> >> > qemu-img convert filename.img -O vmdk filename.vmdk
>> >> >
>> >> > The resulting vmdk image was then successfully used on vmware fusion
>> >> > to
>> >> > run
>> >> > the Ubuntu Core vm.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> That's awesome Stelian, thank you! Is there an "official" place we
>> >> could
>> >> publish the VMDK where folks who use those every day would find it?
>> >>
>> >> Mark
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi Mark,
>> >
>> > At the moment I only have it on my laptop. I could put it somewhere if
>> > you
>> > wish (or was the question about the "official" place not for me?).
>>
>> Right, Mark is asking for the equivalent of "DockerHub" of VMWare
>> images.  Does something like that exist?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dustin
>
>
> There is this thing called "VMware Solution Exchange" where they have
> different categories, like "Virtual Appliances Marketplace", "Cloud
> Management Marketplace" and some other marketplaces :-). (URL is
> https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store).
>
> I don't know if it's possible to just upload your own appliance there, I
> will have a look.
>
> In the meantime, if Canonical would be willing to host it somewhere (like
> you do with the KVM image), I could give it to you somehow.


Great idea.

I have CC'd Ben Howard, who is responsible for the tooling and
automation around building and publishing these images.

Ben, could you have a look at this from Stelian, and integrate it into
our Snappy image build/publish processes?

Thanks!
Dustin