Disclaimer for anyone who doesn’t know, I’m the CEO of JumpBox.
After a quiet couple months, things are really cracking now with JumpBox. We had some great stuff queued up that took a lot longer to get out than I expected. The funny thing is that the product was ready, but it took a while to […]
Archive for the 'Windows Virtual Server' Category
Citrix, the recent acquirer of XenSource, has now announced the roll out of evaluation virtual appliances for Citrix Presentation Server.
The new Citrix Evaluation Virtual Appliance (EVA) is a preconfigured, ready-to-go, virtual machine system for evaluating Presentation Server Enterprise 4.5 and Platinum Edition 4.5. The EVA enables you to download a completely configured Presentation Server […]
VirtualAppliances.net has released the latest build of their LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) virtual appliance. Details of the release are below.
VirtualAppliances.net has released build 110 of its popular LAMP
Virtual Appliance. This LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl)
server appliance can be downloaded and running within a matter of
minutes.
Quick & Easy […]
The Virtualization Daily Book Store is now online. This is intended to be a resource for books on Virtualization, Virtual Appliances (there aren’t any yet, but I’m betting some will appear soon), Utility Computing and anything else I think may be of interest to readers of this site.
Over the past few days there’s been quite a storm brewing related to a conflict between VMWare and Microsoft. This was sparked by a paper VMWare posted criticizing Microsoft’s recent licensing changes.
Microsoft is trying to restrict customers’ flexibility and freedom to choose virtualization software by limiting who can run their software and how they can […]
VirtualAppliances.net has released a new LAMP virtual appliance.
Our new LAMP Virtual Appliance provides turnkey Apache HTTP Server, PHP,
Perl, Python, and MySQL in one easy to use 65MB download.
Uniquely, this Virtual Appliance shares the web content via CIFS/Windows
Networking for extremely easy to use content publication and management.
This appliance features optional use of virtual hard disks for […]
As a solution for something that’s way harder than it should be, Microsoft has released a virtual machine with Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6 & 7 preinstalled. The target for this is web developers who are looking to test their sites against both of the IE versions. The virtual machine has XP installed and […]
A couple days ago I wrote about how to convert a VMWare appliance to Parallels, now today I see Dave over on Dave’s Virtual Cave has posted how to convert a JumpBox virtual appliance to work with Microsoft Virtual Server. Actually, what he does will work for any appliance that has a VMDK disk […]
Virtualappliances.net has added a Cacti virtual appliance to their collection of appliances. From the Cacti home page:
Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool’s data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box. […]
It’s been a busy couple of weeks around the JumpBox offices and the queue of unposted virtualization topics has gotten rather large thanks to last week’s VMWorld conference. To help clear the queue here are a few quick links that I found interesting over the past couple weeks. The general theme here is the emergence […]

