On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 14:11, Ingo Weinhold<ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote: > > On 2009-08-25 at 12:02:30 [+0200], Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > My point here is that we should bump up the default vmware image >> > size, >> > so that potential devs are left with some room to actually be able to >> > build things on their images, which probably means at least 1GB or >> > 2GB. >> >> For the release I agree, but not for the nightly built images - those >> should rather stay handy IMO. > > +1 > > In fact I wouldn't recommend to build anything on the image itself, but > rather create a second, larger image for development. So one can easily > update (i.e. replace) the system image without having to worry about the > data. > I'd like to provide blank BFS images in the size of 512mb, 1024mb, and 2048mb as both raw .image and for vmware. The raw images compressed to about 512KB, 1024KB, and 2048KB respectively. Is anyone willing to convert these images for use with VMWare? --mmadia