Add ability to build Debian virtual machines

I could use this too. In fact, a more difficult feature-request would be totally different distro support like Fedora, SuSE, and Gentoo as well.

python-vm-builder now has a plugin mechanism for distribution handling that would allow that. I guess it would now take a DD to spend the bit of time needed to adapt the ubuntu plugin into a debian plugin.

Marking it invalid for ubuntu-vm-builder and reassigning to python-vm-builder

Support for Debian/Etch is available in
lp:~bzed/vmbuilder/debian
Lenny/testing/unstable will be added soon.

Unsubscribing the sponsors team, there seems nothing to sponsor here.

When will this branch be merged into trunk? I would like to see these features in the general release.

http://wiki.debian.org/VMBuilder mentions a debian-compatible fork.
It appears well-maintained enough at a glance.

    git clone git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-escience/vmbuilder.git

I have a fork that intends to add Debian guest support. Right now it is only tested with KVM (because that is just what I need). Also I only tested it with Jessie images, so it might not work with every Debian suite as the guest, particularly with older suites.

It serves my purpose of adding support for Debian guest KVM images to gitian-builder. But it would be nice if my changes were upstreamed. I assume that images other than KVM don't currently work for Debian guests in my fork and that the upstream maintainers would probably want all image types to be supported before merging in any of my changes, but I figured it would be good to start a dialog at this point.

Let me know what it would take to upstream these changes.

https://github.com/josephbisch/vmbuilder

Hi,

I'm the maintainer of the Gitian project (deterministic build system, used by Bitcoin Core and Tor).

This would be useful to us, so that Gitian works with Debian guests.

Hi,

made a few comments on the github branch. Overall I'm happy to take this into lp:vmbuilder, and put it into the 16.04 package.

We'd need for the author of the commits to sign the contributor agreement.

I just tried filling out the contributor agreement (so far I am the sole author of the changes), but I'm not sure what to put for the project contact and it is required. Do I put you, Serge?

Thanks for the comments on GitHub. I'll address them asap and get the changes into bzr.

Quoting Joseph Bisch (<email address hidden>):
> I just tried filling out the contributor agreement (so far I am the sole
> author of the changes), but I'm not sure what to put for the project
> contact and it is required. Do I put you, Serge?

Uh, I'm really not sure. Putting me down sounds right.

I added the Debian guest related commits to https://code.launchpad.net/~josephbisch/vmbuilder/debian. I also added Debian Stretch and tested out creating a KVM image of it.

I notice that my full name doesn't show up in the list of revisions like it does for other people. I guess I don't have my local bzr program configured correctly. If it is significant, I can try fixing it.

Thanks, I've merged this upstream. I may push a new version to xenial in a few days.