VirtualBox open source virtualisation

VirtualBox is an open source virtualisation environment

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Amazon Compute Cloud EC2 & Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

Setting up and Running Amazon EC2.
A video that walks through the process of running an Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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Honeynet Honeywall honeypot

The purpose of the Honeynet Honeywall cdrom is to make it easier to deploy, manage, and derive value from honeynet technologies and you can even create a Honeywall software appliance virtual machine !

http://www.honeynet.org/images/honeywall_cdrom_label.jpg

Honeywall_cdrom_label

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TechTarget Virtualisation Tips

http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/

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Novell OpenSUSE 10.2

I managed to build a VM and change fix zen-installer and zen-updater to use a proxy server !

But could I actually get it to download any updates ? No ! So it's back to good old Ubuntu !

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VMware Server Management User Interface

VMware Server MUI screenshot

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VMware Server MUI is a web based system monitor runs on port 8222 or 8333 and lets you start, stop and see CPU utilisation of your VMs. It is a completely optional component and you can just use VMware Server Console if you prefer.

Even though VMware is free-of-charge it is not an opensource virtualiser like XenSource

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VMware Server on rPath howto

The rPath wiki has an article on installing VMware Player or Server on a rPath host
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/rBuilder:Use_VMware_Images_on_rPath_Linux

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Jasper Reports open source reporting engine

JasperReports open source reporting engine. You can even download a pre-built VMware JasperReports software appliance virtual machine.

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VMware Server on Ubuntu howto

Here are some great tips from http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/

• VMware Server on Ubuntu howto Part 1
• VMware Server on Ubuntu howto Part 2

or look at the

• Ubuntu wiki on VMware Server

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rPath Appliance Agent

THe rPath Appliance Agent is like a mini webmin that lets you stop start your software appliance and it's services as well as applying software patches and updates.

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