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http://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.

Billy Marshall (CEO rPath) thinks that walled gardens will ultimately be overshadowed by clouds because you cannot achieve webscale computing if every application has to run on a server owned by Google … The faster we take the market to cloud computing, the sooner we can kill off the walled gardens through webscale shadows that deprive them of economic sunlight.

rPath 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)

The updated version of rBuilder, rPath’s flagship product, provides a new Appliance Model which allows software companies to centrally define configurations for the development, testing and release stages of their appliance.  This makes it easier for multiple groups to coordinate on the development and launch of a new appliance.  It also ensures that consistent processes are used across multiple appliance releases.

Using MySQL Enterprise for Amazon EC2, developers can cost-effectively deliver web-scale database applications in the “cloud”, fully backed by the database experts at MySQL.

Amazon EC2 and MySQL are a great fit for organizations that want to reduce the capital expenditures and operating costs required to build out and run their IT infrastructure.

Lxlabs HyperVM is a multi-platform, multi-tiered, multi-server, multi-virtualization web based application that will allow you to create and manage different Virtual Machines each based on different technologies across machines and platforms.

VPSLink have a useful page comparing their OpenVZ and Xen Hosting Platforms with some great graphics showing where the virtualisation layers are in each solution !

At least VPSLink are already advertising OpenVZ & Xen Ubuntu 8.04 VPS VMs from $8/m !

VPSLink  CentOS VPS plans

VPSLink  Ubuntu VPS plans

The howtoforge has a great set of virtualisation howto’s for Xen, KVM and more !

Xen Source Cool Configurations is a blog / wiki of some of the coolest Xen configurations around !