Best way to share a virtual appliance image (~4 gig)?

[Andrew Stewart-10]

I've been working on a virtual appliance consisting of CentOS 5.1 and the
software necessary to go from raw sequence to assembled sequence to
annotated sequence pre-installed.  I understand there's quite a bit of
interest / discussion on this list about virtualization and even a "GMOD in
a box" project.  I'm wondering if anyone has any good advice on how to share
such a large file among other developers?

Is it probably a bad idea to throw the file (~4 gigs) into version control
on sourceforge?

Are there better (or /any/ for that matter) ways of hosting such large files
on sourceforge, or should I be looking elsewhere?

How is the gmod community approaching this with the "GMOD in a box" vm
project?


Any advice would be great!
-Andrew Stewart


ps: If anyone is interested in learning more about this project, feel free
to email me or check out http://sourceforge.net/projects/diyg/


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[Scott Cain-3]

Hi Andrew,

I suspect you might incure the wrath of SourceForge if you put a 4GB
in CVS.  We've created an ftp repository (ftp.gmod.org/pub/gmod) and
it currently has the virtual appliance from the GMOD summer school but
nothing else.

One thing I've thought about but never done is to create torrents for
downloads.  While I don't expect to get any "swarm" advantages of
torrents, torrent clients are very smart about completing interrupted
downloads, and since we are talking about very big files, that seems
like a good thing.

Scott


On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Andrew Stewart
<andrew.stewart@...> wrote:

> I've been working on a virtual appliance consisting of CentOS 5.1 and the
> software necessary to go from raw sequence to assembled sequence to
> annotated sequence pre-installed.  I understand there's quite a bit of
> interest / discussion on this list about virtualization and even a "GMOD in
> a box" project.  I'm wondering if anyone has any good advice on how to share
> such a large file among other developers?
>
> Is it probably a bad idea to throw the file (~4 gigs) into version control
> on sourceforge?
>
> Are there better (or /any/ for that matter) ways of hosting such large files
> on sourceforge, or should I be looking elsewhere?
>
> How is the gmod community approaching this with the "GMOD in a box" vm
> project?
>
>
> Any advice would be great!
> -Andrew Stewart
>
>
> ps: If anyone is interested in learning more about this project, feel free
> to email me or check out http://sourceforge.net/projects/diyg/
>
>
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