[OSM-dev] VM image

[Hugh Barnes]

On Wednesday 15 October 2008 04:38:14 Till Harbaum / Lists wrote:
> Am Dienstag 14 Oktober 2008 schrieb Andy Allan:
> > I certainly use VMware for testing the rails_port, and in fact have
> > been working on fixing up the installation instructions at
> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/The_Rails_Port and the
>
> What about distributing virtualbox images (http://www.virtualbox.org)
> instead? This is open source (being more in the spirit of OSM) and the
> vm can just be distributed with the image.
>

+1. There are quite enough tools running on binary-only/owned platforms and 
it's a turn-off for me, at least.

I was thinking a little while ago of a Live CD. I think they both have their 
pros and cons. Is there an easy way to maintain both options in parallel?

And, perhaps obvious, but I think these large downloads would have to be 
distributed by torrent.

Thanks to whomever brings these about.