a question (or two) about vmbuilder in pre-maverick

[Robert P. J. Day]

  i'm playing with the vmbuilder utility that's part of
python-vm-builder on a fully-updated pre-maverick system so a couple
questions.

  first, is this the easiest way to create new VMs in maverick?  i can
see other command line utils but vmbuilder seems like the easiest way
to go.

  and second, i'm following along here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/JeOSVMBuilder

and experimenting with building a minimal VM, but about halfway down
that page, there's a section entitled "Packages caching," which i
obviously want to take advantage of given that i want to build more
than one machine, but that section talks about setting up an
apt proxy with:

  $ sudo apt-get install apt-proxy

but i don't see any such package.  can someone provide the recipe for
configuring package caching for vmbuilder before i get into creating
VMs?  thanks.

rday

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