[Koha] Koha on virtual machine?

[Mark Tompsett]

Greetings,

I run a local VirtualBox VM on my Windows 7 machine for development. I would 
never consider such a thing for production. It is possible? Yes, I would 
think so. Should you do it? Not on a machine which is being used as a 
desktop computer, in my opinion.

Have you considered an external host provider (such as digitalocean.com)? If 
your IT guy could set up DNS entries to point to a hosted VM, your small 
library might be well accommodated by cheaper plans (like digitalocean's 
$10/month plan). Compare that against the cost of replacement hardware. It's 
about the same, if not cheaper.

Then, follow the package installation instructions at:
    http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Debian (the recommended OS of 
preference)
(or http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_ubuntu_-_packages -- I'm 
partial to Ubuntu myself)
It would be relatively simple to maintain.

Plus, you then provide external access at no extra cost, and can likely get 
any further assistance you need more readily and remotely from one of many 
Koha support providers. :)

Just my take on your situation.

GPML,
Mark Tompsett