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

[Ricardo Pinho]

Great news! Thank you Brent!
If you going to try PostGIS, please leave us your comments about the
experience!
Cheers,
Ricardo


pcreso wrote:
> 
> 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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