AltME: Syllable

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Andreas
how large is your virtualbox image?
AdrianS
if you want, np - I can try google drive, though
145 MB
Kaj
Let me check
I'd like to have your image, but this is not working
AdrianS
sorry, thought you were asking me
give me a place to upload to and I'll stick it there - you can then figure out what you want to do
I got no popups after the countdown - there was a captcha and then a button to download
Kaj
That button only produces the popup for me. Anyway, this is not something I can put our users through
Andreas
i think i have a qemu/kvm image from back when syllable desktop 0.6.7 was released. if that's of any use, i can dig it up.
Kaj
I currently have my VB Bzip2'ed at 112 MB, so it should be very close to the 93 MB installation CD when I 7-Zip it
Thanks, but a QEmu image is less problematic for me to produce, because we have it in Syllable
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
Andreas
ok. just had a quick look, the qemu-generated .vmdk i have is 441MB uncompressed, and 79MB after 7z -mx=9.
Kaj
That's better than expected. Maybe indeed a new 7-Zip version
Andreas
That's with 7-Zip 9.20.
Kaj
Do you think the VMDK could be dropped into the configuration file for our old image?
Andreas
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.
Kaj
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?

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