New appliance: Debian - Githubissues

b-ehlers commented 2 years ago

Created a new Debian appliance, based on the official cloud images https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/.

These images use only the text based interface, no GUI. Therefore they are lightweight and relative small, about 250 MB.

Before submitting a pull request, please check the following.

When creating a new appliance:

It's tested locally, i.e.
- [x] You dragged an instance into a project on your box, got it installed (if necessary), and did some basic network checks (ping, UI reachable, etc.).
- [x] GNS3 VM can run it without any tweaks.
- [x] The device is in the right category: router, switch, guest (hosts), firewall
- [x] You filled in as much info as possible (checks the schemas and other appliance files for some guidance).
[ ] When adding a container: it builds on Docker Hub and can be pulled.
[x] The filenames in the "images" section are unique (to avoid appliances and/or versions overwriting each other).
[x] If you forked the repo, running check.py doesn't drop any errors for the new file.
[ ] Optional: a symbol has been created for the new appliance.

b-ehlers commented 2 years ago

I don't want to annoy other developers, but I think that this appliance can replace debian10-min.gns3a.

This appliance has the following advantages:

This appliance offers Debian 10 (Buster) and Debian 11 (Bullseye), while debian10-min offers only Buster.
It's about 10 times smaller, 250 MB vs. 2.5 GB.
Comparable number of installed packages. Even though debian10-min is much bigger, it doesn't contain a GUI.
No VNC console needed, telnet has no issues with keyboard layouts and copy/paste. But if needed, the user can use the VNC console also with this appliance.
Even though the debian10-min image looks fine, it's not an official one.

grossmj commented 2 years ago

Thanks for this 🙂 Also, I will delete the other appliance.

GNS3 / gns3-registry