We have a test Koha server here that's partly like you describe. Our base metal is a Sun Fire X4100 server running Solaris 10 and VirtualBox, then we installed Koha on Debian in a VM. All that was fairly easy to setup, but I think one of the things with a distributable VM is keeping it up-to-date. Koha is a rapidly developing ILS, and a VM project would require some frequent attention. Several months ago I think we also had Koha on Debian in a VBox VM, on top of a Debian host. OpenSuse, one of my go-to distros, actually has a good build service if someone was inclined to use that. https://build.opensuse.org/ We're kinda busy with a couple of project here so I probably couldn't devote a lot of time to such a project at the moment, but I think it would be a good project and well worth doing. Greg -------------------- On 06/08/2011 08:28 AM, Tim Bateson wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Is anyone looking at creating a virtualised version of Koha so that people could download a Virtual Machine based on Open Virtualisation Format Archive (OVA). I tend to use Virtualbox for testing VMs and have had to create a few Debian based VMs recently.
What should be included? ie pre create a library, items, groups, patrons etc or just have a base install of 3.4 with nothing configured ?
Would it be of any interest or help to do this?
All the best,
Tim
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