[postgis-users] GISVM - Free GIS Virtual Machine Pre-release

[pcreso at pcreso.com]

FYI,

It seems to run fine on VirtualBox 1.6.4 running under the host OS OpenSuse v11.0 on a AMD Compaq laptop....

Cheers,

  Brent Wood


--- On Wed, 9/3/08, Ricardo Pinho <rpinho_eng at yahoo.com.br> wrote:

> From: Ricardo Pinho <rpinho_eng at yahoo.com.br>
> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] GISVM - Free GIS Virtual Machine Pre-release
> To: postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net
> Date: Wednesday, September 3, 2008, 8:24 AM
> Chris Puttick wrote:
> > 
> >>
> >> Dear all,
> >> 
> >> A pre-release version of "GIS Virtual
> Machine" is available at :
> >> www.gisvm.com
> >> GISVM is intended to be a full-feature GIS
> Workstation based
> >> exclusively on free GIS software, including
> PostgreSQL/PostGIS.
> >> 
> >> Please feel free to download it and enjoy!!!
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> --
> >> Ricardo Pinho
> > 
> > Any chance of a kvm version? There is a conversion
> tool that I'm led to
> > believe is mostly effective. Also, has the VM been
> tested on VirtualBox?
> > Just seems ironic to build an free software GIS
> Workstation and then
> > require a non-free (in speech) software package to
> make it work...
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> 
> I'm sorry! This is a pre-release version exclusive
> under VMWare format
> image.
> I believe GISVM will be initially for MAC/Windows users
> where VMWare is, in
> my opinion, the oldest and best "player" on the
> market. 
> And btw, "VMWare Player" is Free and Open Source:
> http://www.vmware.com/download/open_source.html
> 
> Nevertheless I believe that a "Standard Format"
> is the best solution and the
> future release format for GISVM. As you probably know,
> VMWare and XEN are
> working on the OVF format for a long time and probably will
> be the industry
> standard in a near future:
> http://www.dmtf.org/newsroom/pr/view?item_key=3b542cbc5e6fc9ede97b9336c29f4c342c02c4e9
> 
> I never tried it in KVM, but I have seen several posts
> about using
> successfully vmdk in KVM.
> If you find a solution, please tell me about it!!!
> 
> Best Regards,
> Ricardo Pinho
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