Development VM Release Process

Rough Outline

• Run aptitude update to get updated packages
• run cat /dev/zero > zero.fill;sync;sleep 1;sync;rm -f zero.fill

This command is run inside the VM to zerofill the available empty space

• On the host machine, running vmware server, run vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -k g2-developer-vm-*

This shrinks the vmdk files

• Zip up the whole g2-developer-vm directory. I used 7-zip to create a maximum compression (Level 9) .bz2 file
• Upload to sf.net