Virtual Appliances for Parallels ...

[cyberchucktx]

All:

Has anyone started to explore the idea of starting a repository of Virtual Appliances along the lines of what VMWARE does?

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/index.html

Basically this is a repository into which end users (including commercial users) can "submit" virtual machine definitions into a central library.

Really kewl stuff.

So far IBM, ORACLE, and Novell (SUSE) have submitted things; pre-built VMs exist for Fedora Core, Asterisk PBX systems, etc.etc.

It would require LARGE file serving capability *somewhere* (no, I can't do it from my home DSL setup, sorry! ) but it would be a great service to provide to Paralells users I would think..

Anyone interested in building (non-proprietary) "appliance" files for Parallels under OSX? I have Fedora Core 5 newly installed with all the updates/upgrades (about 500M worth) ....

Charlie

 

[coxcu]

This would really be handy to help people get hooked quickly. The bandwidth requirements depend on how it is done. VMWare and QEMU both offer a collection of ready-to-run imgaes. They both only offer a few images via HTTP. Most of the images they only make available via BitTorrent.

 

[Andrew @ Parallels]

This is really good idea - thank you! We will think about it for sure.