With Oracle Enterprise Linux JeOS (Just Enough OS) — a secure, minimized OS that is freely re-distributable and backed by enterprise-class support — developers and ISVs can now easily build Oracle VM Templates.
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Oracle Enterprise Linux JeOS VM Templates
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009VMware Tools X/Ubuntu dynamic resize
Monday, February 23rd, 2009vmware server / fusion / player / tools now DYNAMICALLY resizes x/ubuntu vm windows (just like the vmware tools video driver for windoz)
Ubuntu host, VMware Server & Xubuntu guest
Friday, February 20th, 2009
VMware Fusion 2 now supports Ubuntu 8.10 guests
Friday, February 13th, 2009VMware Fusion 2.0.2 is a maintenance release of VMware Fusion 2 for Apple Mac OS/X.
It now supports Ubuntu 8.10 as a guest operating system, including features such as VMware Tools with prebuilt kernel modules, Easy Install, and Unity.
VMware Fusion 2.0.2 (for Intel-based Macs):
Download without McAfee VirusScan Plus Installer
187 MB
VMware Fusion 2.0.2 (for Intel-based Macs):
Download including McAfee VirusScan Plus Installer
286 MB
OpenSolaris 2008.11 Base AMI on Amazon EC2
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009OpenSolaris 2008.11 Base AMI on Amazon EC2
The AMI ID is:
OpenSolaris 2008.11 32-bit AMI ami-7db75014
To read about what’s new in OpenSolaris 2008.11 visit the OpenSolaris Web site and read the latest documentation for OpenSolaris AMIs.
Oracle GNU/Linux 5.2 and Oracle Xen VM Server 2.1.2
Friday, November 28th, 2008Oracle GNU/Linux 5.2 and Oracle Xen VM Server 2.1.2 ISOs are now available for download from:
http://www.oracle.com/virtualization
- Oracle Enterprise Linux Release 5 Update 2
- http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux
- Oracle VM Server 2.1.2
- http://edelivery.oracle.com/oraclevm
- Oracle VM Manager 2.1.2
- http://edelivery.oracle.com/oraclevm
and you can get some Oracle Xen VM templates from
Amazon EC2 Super Quick Start with JumpBox
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008EC2 Quick Start
- sign up
- generate cert & private key
- download amazon ec2 tools into ~/ec2
- export environment variables
- export EC2_HOME=~/ec2
- export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.5.0_15
- export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=~/ec2/pk.pem
- export EC2_CERT=~/ec2/cert.pem
- export EC2_JVM_ARGS=”-Dhttps.proxyHost=my.proxy -Dhttps.proxyPort=8080″
Then run amazon ec2 describe images utility
$ ./bin/ec2-describe-images -a
you’ll see a list of over 600 AMIs including the following jumpboxs
- IMAGE ami-70ab4f19 jumpbox-amis/bugzilla-1.1.0.manifest.xml
- IMAGE ami-71ab4f18 jumpbox-amis/mediawiki-1.1.0.manifest.xml
- IMAGE ami-6aac4803 jumpbox-amis/movabletype-1.1.0.manifest.xml
- IMAGE ami-0eb45067 jumpbox-amis/wordpress-1.1.0.manifest.xml
just choose a JumpBox AMI virtual machine software appliance and run it !
Finally check your credit card bill the following month !
ec2ubuntu – An Amazon EC2 AMI Ubuntu Image
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008VirtualAppliances.net are now using Ubuntu JeOS 8.04 LTS and OVF
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008http://VirtualAppliances.net/downloads/
VirtualAppliances.net appliances feature an upgrade to their base distribution, using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition, which will be supported by Canonical until 2013.
All of the 32 bit Appliances are using Ubuntu JeOS (Just enough Operating System) which provides a kernel optimized for virtual appliance use.
VMware OVF (Open Virtual appliance Format) images are now available for VMware ESX and ESXi in both 32 bit and 64 bit versions.
rPath Xen software appliance build options
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008rPath Xen software appliance virtual machine build options
Non Xen
- ~!domU, ~!xen
Xen domU
- domU, ~!group-dist.bothpae, ~!kernel.pae, ~kernel.smp, xen is: x86(mmx)
Xen domU+pae
- domU, ~!group-dist.bothpae, ~kernel.pae, ~kernel.smp, xen is: x86(mmx)