#3112 NORM Opportu: Build VMWare and VirtualBox appliances for download

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#3112: Build VMWare and VirtualBox appliances for download
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  Reporter:  mcfletch     |       Owner:  djbclark   
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new        
  Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Opportunity
 Component:  distro       |     Version:             
Resolution:               |    Keywords:             
  Verified:  0            |  
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Comment(by mcfletch):

 Minimum disk-space required is (conservatively) around 5GB if we don't
 store anything on the server where the process is running (i.e. just
 upload the results immediately to dev and then delete them).

 System load should be fairly minimal, coming in a big spike just after a
 release, (basically a few URL queries most of the time, then a big
 download and convert).  Most of that is just disk activity.

 Needed:

 * Qemu
 * Python
 * ssh/scp
 * cron (to kick off the whole process every hour or two)
 ** working mail-from-cron (so that I can get reports of any failures in
 the cron)
 * zip binary (for creating zipfiles)
 * md5sum binary (for creating md5 files)

 The last two can be eliminated if they are a problem with some extra
 Python coding.

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