After much thinking (:)) I have decided to merge my two blogs here at www.vmwhere.net and at jayakumar.co.in into a single site/blog at www.jayakumar.org.

The reason was simple, am lazy and do not want to maintain two sites. Plus after I moved out of VMware late last year I don’t feel the need maintain a separate blog for VMware so as maintain that thin distinction between work (VMware) and personal (linux/networking) stuff. Also since I have joined Cisco I have been wanting to blog bout Nexus 1000v and Cisco UCS products, but the mere thought of setting up and maintaining another blog kept that idea far. So theoretically I have merged 3 blogs into one.

Hopefully this will spur me into writing some good content, so as to make all that multi-re-directs that I have setup worthwhile

Cheers!

Thanks to a catastrophic failure during migration from a private server to a shared server, all the site downloads are gone the blogs posts, comments etc basically everything that was on the database we were able to recover from a db backup, but anything on the filesystem is gone. So all the virtual machine images are gone as well so no more virtual machine downloads

I will try to spin up a few of the latest gentoo and slackware versions that I have skipped earlier on  in the next few weeks and hopefully we will have some downloads then.

Sorry for the inconvenience, if you came here looking for quick access to some linux virtual images .

Gentoo v2007.0 Virtual Machine

If you are here, you probably know a bit about Gentoo Linux already, if not Gentoo.org is a good place to start and Gentoo arguably has the best product documentation wiki ever, so it makes sense to look it up, if you run into something.

Now about the VM itself.

Gentoo Linux Configuration
Distribution: 2007.0
Linux Kernel: 2.6-23-gentoo-r3
Installation Type: Minimal (no Desktop Environment)
Networking: DHCP
User Name/password – none
Root Password: “gentoo”

Virtual Machine Configuration
RAM: 512 MB (configurable by editing the gentoo.vmx file)
Disk: 20.0 GB (sorry I had to err on the side of plenty)
Networking: Bridged
VMware Tools: Loaded
Monitor Resolution: 1024×768

Download Information
Available in the Downloads page.
File Size: 614 MB
Compression: ZIP
MD5SUM 450282ac4ffbebc6a7359718d4ab2a9a *Gentoo.2007.0.rar

This VM is minimal base install. It has the shell and the basic networking installed. Everything else can be custom installed and configured using emerge.

Until then, hope ya have fun with this version.

I was finally able to find some time to work on this again and have completely reworked the downloads..

All downloads are still primarily delivered using bittorrent. The .torrent files are served locally and but are now tracked via public trackers and not my own. I have moved that tracker server to serve direct http downloads and added webseeding capability to all the torrents, so you will never be stuck with an incomplete download.

As mentioned above there is also a direct http link available for each download now, however please use this only if you absolutely do not have any way of using bittorrent to get the file.

Also I have added a small donation button, so that if you feel the need to be philanthropic, you can do so and your money will go directly into footing the hosting bills and not to my bimmer plan.

Thanks, and thank you for your support and comments.

Here is an updated VM having Slackware v11

Slackware Linux Configuration
Distribution: 11
Linux Kernel: 2.4.33
Installation Type: Full
Desktop Environment: XFCE
Networking: DHCP
Root Password: “vmware”

Virtual Machine Configuration
RAM: 256 MB (configurable by editing the slack.vmx file)
Disk: 4.0 GB
Networking: Bridged
VMware Tools: Loaded
Monitor Resolution: 1024×768

Download Information
Available in the Downloads page.

File Size: 852.37 MB
Compression: RAR
MD5SUM bef4bf34e33c1b5dda61bb5ab493d2d8 *slackware11.rar

Hope ya have fun with this version.