This is a stage3 installation of Gentoo (amd64, nomultilib) on vSphere environment.

It is based on the official Quick Install guide, but avoids completing any of the optional steps.

Note: Currently the VMWare Fusion version has no vmware-tools installed, but NFS mounts should work fine.

This is a Packer template. Install the latest version of Packer, then:

packer build vmware.json

This will chew for a bit and finally output a Vagrant box file.

If the error about GuestIPHack occurs, execute the following command first:

./setup_esxi.sh $ESXI_HOSTNAME

The disk is a 40GB sparse disk. You do not need 40GB of free space initially. The disk will grow as disk usage increases.

Everything is left as the defaults. The time zone is designated through variables in vmware.json