It seems that UShareSoft UForge is the new rPath! UForge is an Adobe AIR app that lets you create CentOS or Ubuntu software appliances and VMs (with packages of your choice such as alfresco cms and apache httpd) for use on your own (cloud.com, Cloud Stack, Eucalyptus, VMware, Xen) clouds !
the root password for a centos vmware rpath openstack software appliance is either “”, “password” or what you specified if you installed it from the iso !
the rpath openstack iso and vmware software appliance features
cloud grid build technologies
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BitNami now provide both VMs based on both OpenSuse and Ubuntu so you now choose between BitNami and JumpBox for your pre-built Ubuntu software appliances and VMs !
BitNami pre-built VM software appliances
JumBox pre-built VM software appliances
TurnKey Linux virtual appliances are built almost entirely from unmodified Ubuntu binaries, it is possible for anyone to verify the integrity of the binaries that make up a virtual appliance against the original package signatures from the official Ubuntu repositories. There are minor exceptions. When required, a virtual appliance may contain a few custom packages which are updated from our cryptographically signed package repository. Full source code for all custom components is available in our code repository. Some components are also hosted on github.
An Amazon EC2 JumpBox for everyone for an hour !
The JumpBox Open Collection currently has free VMs of Joomla and Movable Type and many more under subscription
Parallels now have their own Virtual Appliances Directory
http://www.parallels.com/ptn/download/va/
in a similar vein to JumpBox, VMwares and rPaths Software Appliance directories.
Virtualisation_and_hypervisors_aid_embedded_design
Virtualisation, hypervisors, and separation kernels have generated considerable buzz in both the enterprise and embedded marketplaces.
However, these same technologies also can play an instrumental role in other environments requiring elements of security, such as those found in the industrial, medical, and financial services areas. What these environments have in common is a need to share some common data, applications, or functions, while leaving other, more critical applications and functions (or data with a higher sensitivity) under virtual lock and key.
https://www.jumpbox.com/node/1240
You can now run JumpBoxes on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Amazon EC2 can be thought of as a big virtualization system in the internet cloud that you pay for by the hour. So instead of running a JumpBox on your hardware you use Amazon’s hardware and just pay for what you need.
There are four beta JumpBox AMIs:
These are currently available as public AMIs on the Amazon system so if you have an Amazon EC2 account you should be able to launch them using any tool that can launch EC2 instances. If you don’t have an Amazon EC2 account you can easily signup for one using any Amazon account.