Another interesting Enomaly project, VMCasting is a way to distribute virtual appliances that allows you to subscribe to an RSS feed in a manner similar to Podcasts. From the VMCasting web site.
VMcasting is an automatic virtual machine deployment mechanism based on RSS2.0 whereby virtual machine images are transferred from a server to a client securely delivering files containing a technical specification and virtual disk image.
The concept of VMcasting is based on the similar concept of Podcasting, the popular trend of audio content delivered via an RSS feed presenting a downloadable or streaming file (often an MP3). With VMcasting, a developer publishes an RSS 2.0 feed where each item describes a release of a particular Virtual Machine Image or Virtual Appliance. The items descriptions may contain release notes or other information about what’s new in a particular release. Therefore developers can be easily upgrade or install using a virtual server management system such as Enomalism.
Enomaly has added support for the format to their Enomalism Xen management tool. We’ll probably add support for it at JumpBox so that users of Enomalism have an easy way to download our virtual appliances.
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