[Koha] New Koha Virtual Appliances Available

[Kyle Hall]

I prefer to use VirtualBox for running vm's on my office pc ( such as
a Windows VM for non-Linux software ). It supports seamless mode which
VMWare does not ( except for Fusion on Mac ). For our 'real' vm's that
are running services ( webservers, squid, etc. ) we use Xen. Xen beats
every other free vm hands down for this, with the exception that
snapshotting in Xen is literally stopping the vm and using dd to copy
the image, quite a pain. We use XenServer, which is Citrix's Xen
package. It's fantastic.

I should mention that VirtualBox supports vmdk files, so you could try
it with your existing vm's.

Kyle

http://www.kylehall.info
Information Technology
Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org )




On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Darrell Ulm <darrellulm at smfpl.org> wrote:
> Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall at ...> writes:
>>
>> Hey all,
>>   I have finished uploading a new set of Koha virtual appliances. Each
>> version is available in VirtualBox or VMWare formats, and in
>> configured and unconfigured states. At the moment, there are versions
>> for the 3.01 official release, and versions for 3.01.00.032, which was
>> the latest from git.koha.org at the time it was created. URL:
>> http://kylehall.info/index.php/projects/koha/koha-virtual-appliance/
>
> Kyle, great Job on building these! I have been running 3.0.1 on VMWARE myself
> and the speed is better than one would think as long as Zebra is the search
> engine.
>
> Very nice to see the VirtualBox worked out. I am hoping to switch to VBox once
> more OS admin. tools are released to manage the VMs.
>
> Do you like VBox better at this point? I have not checked out the latest version
> yet.
>
> -Darrell Ulm
>
>
>
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