Ubuntu 11.10 VM including OpenJDK Build Image

[John Yeary]

Hello Martijn,

I do not have jtreg installed. I will add it and see if I can make mine
smaller. My skype id is johnyeary

John
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On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Martijn Verburg
<martijnverburg at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> Good news!  Mike and I have a smaller image (~5Gb), but it's based off
> 10.04 and we started with a java 7 binary.
>
> Does your image have the jtreg tests running?
>
> We should try and get on Skype later this week to discuss further steps
> (we have some temp hosting).  Both Mike and I are on holiday in NZ but will
> try to get back into this soon!
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Cheers,
> Martijn
>
>
> On Monday, 13 February 2012, John Yeary <johnyeary at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I have created a very basic installation of Ubuntu 11.10 on a Virtual Box
> > VM. It includes all of the tools required to build JDK 8. It is small (10
> > GB), but this is still rather large to me. I could put the image up to
> > allow people to download it, but that could take some time.Ultimately I
> > would like to get the image down to < 4GB so that we can use it on a
> memory
> > stick. I tried to use Ubuntu Minimal, but could not get it to install on
> > less than 4GB. I will see about adding this to the wiki, and also to the
> > README-builds.html in the root of the distribution.
> >
> > I created a jdk7u build first to bootstrap the jdk8 build and it worked
> > perfectly.
> >
> > John
> >
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> >
> > John Yeary
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> >
> > <http://javaevangelist.blogspot.com/>  <https://twitter.com/jyeary>
> > <http://www.youtube.com/johnyeary>
> >  <http://www.linkedin.com/in/jyeary>
> > <https://plus.google.com/112146428878473069965>
> >  <http://www.facebook.com/jyeary>
> > <http://feeds.feedburner.com/JavaEvangelistJohnYearysBlog>
> >  <http://netbeans.org/people/84414-jyeary>
> > ____________________________
> >
> > "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even
> > though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits
> who
> > neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray
> twilight
> > that knows not victory nor defeat."
> > -- Theodore Roosevelt
> >
>