Recently I've been experimenting with Catalyst, the tool that generates stages and iso files for Gentoo's Release Engineering team. The first, still very experimental result is now available for download - a bootable hard disk image in QEmu's qcow2 format that immediately drops you into a fully working Gentoo environment.
Feel free to download it and try it out, either this first upload or any future weekly build from the amd64 release file directories. The files are not linked on the www.gentoo.org webserver since I consider them not really finished yet, but instead experimental and under development. You can use a QEmu commandline as for example
qemu-system-x86_64 \
-m 8G -smbios type=0,uefi=on -bios /usr/share/edk2-ovmf/OVMF_CODE.fd \
-smp 4 -cpu host -accel kvm -vga virtio -drive file=di.qcow2 &
where the last "file" argument specifies the file that you downloaded, for testing.
The current download initially does not start any network login services such as sshd, but has an empty root password for logging in on the console - this is why I call it a "console" type disk image. Future variants I'm planning include for example a "cloud-init" type, which sets up log-in credentials and further configuration as supplied by a cloud provider.
Cheers and enjoy!
