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I was looking for prebuilt gentoo VMs. Found none, but stumbled across this utility instead.
If you want contributors or more users, why not create an ebuild out of this?

Name it app-emulation/virtualbox-gentoo-vbox-builder , and boom: people will find it without even trying.

Thank you for a great utility. Trying for the first time it right now. I love that it has useful defaults for everything.

Today I was testing and found that recently the Gentoo team must have embraced grub2 for their livecd. I was testing another issue with gentoo-vbox-builder this morning and in the middle of testing, the livecd version changed, causing headaches till I confirmed this upstream version was also affected and now broken by the updated livecd.

I have a fix in a local branch, however till that's fully tested and upstreamed, gentoo-vbox-builder will need an older livecd/admincd with syslinux to run.

install-amd64-minimal-20221106T170545Z.iso - Had Syslinux, and gentoo-vbox-builder worked

install-amd64-minimal-20221113T170154Z.iso - Grub2, and gentoo-vboxbuilder fails

The Script will error out with
` * Configuring SSH...

• Waiting until SSH will be up (1/5)...
  Connection timed out during banner exchange
• Waiting until SSH will be up (2/5)...
  Connection timed out during banner exchange
• Waiting until SSH will be up (3/5)...
  Connection timed out during banner exchange
• Waiting until SSH will be up (4/5)...
  Connection timed out during banner exchange
• Waiting until SSH will be up (5/5)...
  Connection timed out during banner exchange
  ERROR: Error on or near line 191; exiting with status 1`

Attempting to use the script with the LiveCD and the minimal CD fails to produce a working installation. That's after trying both USE_LIVECD_KERNEL=1 and USE_LIVECD_KERNEL=0.

Please help me. There is a log:

livecd /home/gentoo-vbox-builder-master # ./gentoo-vbox-builder.sh
cat: /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub: No such file or directory

• Gentoo VirtualBox Image Builder 1.0.5
• The following parameters will be used:
• Guest Name: Gentoo amd64
• Host SSH Port: 2222
• Gentoo Stage3: amd64 (ARCH: amd64)
• Started at Wed May 13 18:24:18 UTC 2020
• PHASE 1: Prepare Instance...
  /home/gentoo-vbox-builder-master/lib/phase1-prepare-instance.sh: line 28: VBoxManage: command not found
  /home/gentoo-vbox-builder-master/lib/phase1-prepare-instance.sh: line 38: VBoxManage: command not found
• Checking if host SSH port is available...
  /home/gentoo-vbox-builder-master/lib/phase1-prepare-instance.sh: line 48: VBoxManage: command not found
• Downloading Gentoo LiveCD...

• Downloading: http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/autobuilds/20200419T214502Z/install-amd64-minimal-20200419T214502Z.iso ...