World: r4wp

I did the VB because it's in Ubuntu and VB works much better now 
than past versions. However, VMware seems to have disappeared from 
Ubuntu, so it's hard to make the images we used to have

I'll see if VB can export to OVF, and then hope VMware can use the 
VB disk format

ok. just had a quick look, the qemu-generated .vmdk i have is 441MB 
uncompressed, and 79MB after 7z -mx=9.

That's better than expected. Maybe indeed a new 7-Zip version

That's with 7-Zip 9.20.

Do you think the VMDK could be dropped into the configuration file 
for our old image?

No idea, sorry. I was just wondering why I created the image as a 
.vmdk, but well -- at least that seems to compress quite well.

Thanks for checking

Adrian, I could try that with your OVF: use the configuration and 
replace the VMDK using QEmu. Could you upload it somewhere simple 
without the VMDK in it?

I can email it

Andreas, what size HD did you have for the VM you had?

OK, the email in my account here should work

Adrian: 1GB

The VB image is 10 GB; that shouldn't be the problem

hard to see why there's such a difference then

sent the ovf conf file

Just the file, or the archive without the VMDK?

just the file

there are only three files one of them the checksums

not sure that's needed

let me send that as well

Thanks!

Did VMware make the archive, or did you pack the files manually?

packed manually - the archive form is OVA, but workstation only produces 
the files

OK

here's a link on google drive - supposedly anyone with the link can 
access with no login

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-dRFgFxR1iJOEtySWJ5NWFBMXc

That just works, and in under two minutes :-)

Is it meant for public downloads?

sure, if you share it that way

same as all the others +/- some little things - you have 5 GB too 
if you have GMail, no?

So you can host it there?

yeah, lots of people have links to google docs files

I mean out in the public

I have Google Drive?

Yeah, but this is a big file, and it's going to be downloaded many 
times

yeah, google drive is part of  google docs - they've sort of unified 
everything

I don't use Google Docs

I wouldn't worry - never saw them specify limits on Docs fies

that was free too for individual use

you have google docs too, if you had gmail

well, you might need to register, actually - but there's no cost

The hosting is not the point, though. I can host files, but if it's 
an official Syllable release, I should have done all the quality 
control and it should be in all the usual places, such as SourceForge. 
If it's a contribution, the hosting should also be contributed to 
make that clear, and I can just link to it

I'll publish your link one of these days. Can I use your name to 
credit you?

up to you - if you need it to idemnify yourself, go ahead - personally, 
I don't need to see a credit with the link

I'm curious - how much traffic do you get from the image downloads?

Not for indemnification, just for credit. It's a volunteer project, 
after all

Syllable versions have been downloaded several ten thousand times 
per version. If a version is current for a long time, the VM image 
could be downloaded twenty thousand times, for example

so the user base is significant?

Depends if you consider that significant :-)