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
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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You can check out my Koha VM's at http://millruntech.com/koha/koha-virtual-appliances . I always release them in pairs, one fully configured as a demo, and one without configuration to use for testing and production. I also wrote an ncurses based front-end to make it more 'appliancy'. This front end gives you information about the system and lets you do things that normally require you to log in via the command line ( including updating the version of Koha ). Kyle http://www.kylehall.info Mill Run Technology Solutions ( http://millruntech.com ) Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org ) Meadville Public Library ( http://www.meadvillelibrary.org ) 2011/6/8 Tim Bateson <tim@monkeyx.net>:
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 _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
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