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Comment on Ubuntu JeOS virtual appliance OS available for download by Oz Greenberg

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:24:39 +0000

In what way is it “stripped down”? Which OS services are bloat in an appliance configuration and wouldn’t the answer to that question depend on the specific application? Is Ubuntu offering tools to determine, based on my application source, what is “just enough”?

Or is this a mostly a general-purpose OS?

Comment on How to install Trac and Subversion in 10 minutes or less by Eddie

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:07:04 +0000

Hello
Thank you for the instruction. I did, however, run into one problem. When I used the Application Page ip address, the site could not be opened. Do you know if there is a way around it?

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Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:46:03 +0000

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Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:17:31 +0000

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Comment on Sources for free virtual machine/virtual appliance images by George Petrov

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:23:48 +0000

It seems today, Aug 30,2007 the web domain http://xen-get.org/ is listed for sale - probably not paid by the owner - so original web content is not available

Comment on How to convert a VMWare virtual appliance to work with Parallels by serge

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:27:02 +0000

Hello,

I’m trying to convert an XP hdd to vmdk with qemu-img (so as to use Parallels’ XP VM in VMWF) and I get a 4.73GB file named “-O”. I figured the filesize looks correct, so I just manually renamed it. While setting up the Virtual Hard Disk in VMWF and trying to use the recently converted VM, I get an error message “The file specified is not a virtual disk”.

I came across MakeVM, which is a shareware cloning utility. Qemu-img should do the job, though, right?

Thanks in advance for suggestions.
-s.

Comment on How to convert a VMWare virtual appliance to work with Parallels by InstructMe

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:35:12 +0000

Maybe change the “What you’ll need” section?
Since the -O doesn’t work on a Mac, maybe add which OS is being used?

Thanks to xurizaemon to even find qemu-img.

I omitted “-O” mentioned by “Peter Knowles” since it appears to default to raw. However I get:
.: 124: Can’t open /boot/system.cfg

I guess I’ll try to get QEMU to do the conversion from within Parallels running Ubuntu or Windows (on the Mac host).

Comment on How to convert a VMWare virtual appliance to work with Parallels by Cesare Vitali

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:08:54 +0000

Hi, it’s very interesting this post, but I’ve the invers problem:
I need to convert an Parallels 3.0 image for using with MS Virtual Server 2005.
Someone know a way to do this trick trip?
Tnx very much
Cesare

Comment on How to convert a VMWare virtual appliance to work with Parallels by xurizaemon

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 06:05:19 +0000

@ last337 : if you install “Q”, then this program can be found in /Applications/Q.app/Contents/MacOS/qemu-img (or similar)

Comment on It’s your grandma’s LAMP virtual appliance by Tim Campbell

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:10:56 +0000

I’d like to try Grandma’s LAMP, but the tracker has been down for some time, and the official line is that the author only supports torrents. No torrent, no download. No download, you lose.