Introduction

Virtual machines like:

- VMware Player ®
- VMware Workstation ®

enables you to run a 'computer' inside your computer.

To make this work you need to build appliances which works within the vitual machine. This can be done by anyone who has basic knowledge plus documentation for each virtual machine and above all time and patience.

NO dual booting risking your production OS and NO hassle running a LiveCD.

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What users say:

I just wanted to tell you that your VMware Virtual appliances are not only very useful but are the best VMs that I have ever downloaded. Most of them work perfectly without any changes. - Ollie Deex USA

Thanks for your f7.vmx! I'm new to Linux, and now I can play with it without any fear. I'm an embedded systems developer, and my first steps with f7.vmx have been to make cross-compiled kernel. - Ignacio G.T. Spain

Just to say thanks and say it works fine on VMWare fusion on a MacBookPro - Graham Marshall

Thank you, love Ubuntu, and try out the various variants when I can. I appreciate your groups effort. -Michael J. Lee Technical Support Specialist | Dell UK

I happen to be using one of the developed linux appliances on vmware. Thanks so much for the good work. - Ola Ogunade The National Blood Service UK.

Your Xubuntu 7 VM works on Vista! I can see light from the cave of the brutal dictator Microsoft! - Brett Womack, Womack Fabrication USA.

There are some others on vmware, but they arent very good. The others don't work. Thanks again. - TWC USA

Very impressed with your vm implementation. It all works! - Simon Ambridge, uk.fujitsu.com

Great opensolaris vm... worked much better than my ubuntu build for smb filesystem shares. Incidentally, FYI, I ran it with 512MB of mem on an AMD K8 64 HP(ish) machine running XP and it seems to work really well. - Dave E Lloyd

I just wanted to say something nice about your virtual denoam system. I downloaded it and started it in my VMWare Workstation and it works just fine. I am blind and therefore this preinstalled and ready to run vmwares are the best for me to test some things and get a ready to run system and does not need to ask anyone to help me in order to install and configure it - this way I just need to start it and ask someone to help me to login on the console and then install the braille driver package and I am ready to do the rest on my own.
Thanks very much for this great peace of work!
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Thank you so much for your virtual appliances. What a lifesaver. Especially for those that don't behave well when trying to install vmware tools. Thank you.
William Kinser

I was directed to you by a VMWare tech on your ProTech One appliance. He was answering my question about forensics within and on a virtual environment. It was most enlightening.
Harvey Rothenberg, Rothenberg and Assoc., Cleveland-USA

bagluX - Great appliance and my default distro! Keep up the good work.
Shailen Karur - OCLC Online Computer Library Center, San Mateo, CA

Thank-you once again, Backtrack3 and Ubuntu with VMware Tools are great gifts. You have helped many. Brilliant, my dear friend.
sincerely, nantech.eng

Thank you for providing the best virtual appliances on the web. Backtrack3 runs perfectly on vmware workstation 5 on HP6715b laptop.
met vriendelijke groeten,
kind regards,
Johan Ramael
Integrated Quality Networks nv

The programs are perfect!
3RComputerSecurity

I just wanted to say thanks for the Gentoo 2008 appliance. It takes so long to build a Gentoo box. You saved me a lot of time.
Thanks,
Joe Malinosky, Vizioncore.com

The Fedora10p worked wonderfully. I got cmake installed and got all my tools loaded within an hour
Lydia Mattingly, CISSP
Office of the CIO
Senior Security Analyst,
National Nuclear Security Agency

Your VMWare instance saved me hours for some things I wanted try out in Fedora 10.
Rollin Crittendon

I have used your Gentoo 2008.0 appliance a couple of different times. It has worked very well for me and saved me a ton of time. I tried Gentoo from scratch once and it proved to be very time consuming to set up.
Chris Egger

Arch Linux - The appliance runs quite great and I could effortless change my settings (language, locales, etc). Amazing work.
Miguel Marín (FANASA, Mexico)

Virtual Appliance Repository.

This site is dedicated to virtual appliances that we build for you to use FREE of charge.The virtual appliances are generally normal installs of the distro with some changes/updates and customizations by us.

bagvapp wiki.

bagvapps are built for use on MS Windows OS's in general
They also work on Linux distros (Linux host/Linux guest).
We only test on XPSP2-3 and Vista Ultimate.
We allocate between 384-968MB RAM for the appliance.
This mean that you need TWICE as much of physical RAM on your machine
Each appliance needs between 2.0-6.0GB of space on your HD
All our appliances have the latest WMware Tools installed
Ethernet connection is set to NAT unless specified otherwise.
USB and CD/DVD are enabled. Floppy and serial/parallel ports are disabled.
Floppy and serial/parallell ports are disabled by default.(Can be reactivated).
Screen resolution varies but is mostly Dynamic (default=1152x864). Drag the vm-frame to resize.
Some settings can be edited in a normal text editor by opening the *.vmx file
NOTE!! Appliance spec., passwords etc. are included in the compressed download as a README.txt.

IMPORTANT!! Mirroring or direct linking to the appliances on our fileservers is NOT permitted. All links should point to "http://bagside.com ","http://bagvapp.com " or "http://bagside.com/bagvapp "

PLEASE link to us wherever you can. Buttons and banners are available ...HERE...

FEED-BACK!! It would be highly appreciated if you could send us a mail with a short information of the appliance(s) you have tried, how it works and on what platform (host OS and machine) you used. Please contact us at "aakeg@bagside.com" Thank you.

HELP!! We need sponsors for our appliances as the downloading is now abt. 7000 GB/mnth or abt. 8000 appliances/mnth. Please contact us at "aakeg@bagside.com" if you can assist. Let us know if you have any proposals or make a donation of any size by using the support button. Thank you.

Simple How to and Terms of use

1. Download VMware Player (Free of charge) here and install.
2. Download one of the *.rar or 7zip compressed appliances on the right.
3. Create a folder on your harddisk like 'Ubuntu' or 'Fedora' or 'MintLinux' etc.
4. Extract the contents of the compressed file into the folder created.
5. Launch VMware Player and open the *.vmx file.
6. For questions on use of WMware Player and Appliances in general go here..

Our appliances are supplied on an 'as is' basis and we do not offer any support or take any responsibility whatsoever for your installation.

Contact us at "aakeg@bagside.com" if you wish to discuss appliances.

Latest Releases

General
All appliances have been compiled with VMwareTools installed allowing for movement of the mouse freely between host/guest, dynamic screen-resolution, cut/paste and drag/drop between host/guest is tested and works unless otherwise specified. ALL our appliances (bagvapps) are slightly customized with our own wallpapers and desktop set-ups mainly to suit our own taste and for branding.

We test each and every appliance on 2 different computers and 3 host platforms (FSC Scaleo H -Intel D, 3GB RAM with XPSP2-3 and Acer Ferrari Laptop (AMD 64) 1.25GB with Vista Ultimate).

The bagvapps works on VMware Player 2 series and Workstation 5-6 series. We do NOT test on VMware Server and have reports that in some cases there are problems to get appliances working there.

bagluX-PE1 Desktop Preview
Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS based remix by bagvapp specifically for Programmers who would like to test applications. The appliance is loaded with IDE's, RAD's, Programmers Editors for C, Phyton, Gtk, .NET, Java and much more. A separate page with screenshots and loads of info has been set-up for you and I need your feed-back if you would be so kind to test it.

READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE...

bagluX-SM1 Desktop Preview
Xubuntu 8.04.1 LTS based remix by bagvapp specifically geared for Stock Markets and Equity traders or users who would like to test applications within this market segment. Why?? Simply because there are very few if any distros or appliances available in this segment and as I work part-time for an Equity fund who solely uses MS Windows for all their/my work I wanted to see if it was possible to create a Linux desktop which could serve me reasonable well. A separate page with screenshots and loads of info has been set-up for you and I need your feed-back if you would be so kind to test it.

READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE...

baglux-KDE4 Desktop Preview
Built from ground up based on Ubuntu 8.10 minimal (10MB). Consequently the following has been installed/compiled and configured from scratch, xorg (manually built xorg.conf), KDE4.2 nightly-build (the latest 2nd of January 2009), gtk2-Qt-KDE4-engine, synaptic, alsa and VMwareTools 7.8.4-126130. This approach gives you a slim, native and unique appliance without the overhead of upgrades and no KDE3. The physical disk is 9GB whereoff 2.3 GB is used. The download is 586 MB and RAM set at 588 MB. Works well here and KDE4 now seriously starts to feel/work like a 'real' desktop....DOWNLOAD

bagluxLE 9.04 Desktop Preview
Originally based on Xubuntu 9.04 beta2 but the XFCE DE has been completely removed and replaced with LXDE 0.3.2.1 (featuring OpenBox). Loads of dev-tools and configuring has been done to provide a fast and lean appliance. VMwareTools are installed of course. The physical disk is 20GB whereoff 2.5 GB is used. The download is 470 MB and RAM set at 512 MB. Works well and is very fast here, although there is a small bug in the mousemovement between host/guest which is a result of the latest xorg/evdev....DOWNLOAD

Sabayon 4 Desktop Preview
Complete build released 26th of December 2008 with KDE 3.5.10 DE. VMwareTools 7.8.4-125130 has been installed. Fully updated/recompiled (emerge system) on the 28th/29th Of December 2008. The physical disk is 25GB whereoff 9.5 GB is used. The download is 2 GB and RAM set at 744 MB. Sorry for the download size but I decided to release the full complete version without removing any programs. Works well although there is a small bug in the mousemovement between host/guest which is documentet....DOWNLOAD

Ubuntu 9.04 a2 Desktop Preview
Alpha build of the next Ubuntu 9.04 due for final release April 2009. Some build-tools and VMwareTools 7.8.4-125130 has been installed. Release date 19/12/2008. The physical disk is 20GB whereoff 3.0 GB is used. The download is 770 MB and RAM set at 588 MB. Uses the new Kernel 2.6.28 series and Xorg server 1.6. Works very nicely and is quite capable for production. It is so stable that I will consider using it as a platform for remastering....DOWNLOAD

Sidux 2008-4 Desktop Preview
Based on Debian SID with Kernel 2.6.27.10 and Xfce 4.4.2 DE. Some build-tools and VMwareTools 7.8.4-125130 are installed. Release date 23/12/2008. The physical disk is 12GB whereoff 1.7 GB is used for the appliance. The download is 355 MB and RAM set at 528 MB. Works very nicely and is one the fastest distros ever built. The actual booting time on my main machine is just under 30 seconds. Amazing! ...DOWNLOAD

nUbuntu 8.10b Desktop Preview
Ubuntu 8.10 remaster loaded with Security tools for Bluetooth, Cisco, Scanners, Password, Exploits, Database, Fuzzers, Enum, VoiP and Wireless. Some build-tools and VMwareTools 7.8.4-125130 are installed. Release date 17/12/2008. The physical disk is 9GB whereoff 2.7 GB is used for the appliance. The download is 566 MB and RAM set at 548 MB. Works very nicely and is fast and very responsive with it's Fluxbox desktop. ...DOWNLOAD

openSUSE 11.1 Desktop Preview
Final version of the openSUSE 11.1 (based on the CD install) with GNOME 2.24.1. Kernel-source, kernel-syms, build-tools and VMwareTools 7.8.4-125130 are installed. Release date 18/12/2008. openSUSE is ranked no.2 on Distrowatch. The physical disk is 20GB whereoff 3.5 GB is used for the appliance. The download is 775 MB and RAM set at 548 MB. Nice, stable and pleasant. ...DOWNLOAD

LinuxMint 6 Desktop Preview
The latest LinuxMint aka 'Felicia' with Gnome 2.24 DE. Occupies 2.9 GB on disk of a virtual dynamic disk of 20 GB. 588 MB RAM allocated and the download is 584 MB. Fully upgraded on the 18th of December. Released on the 15th of December. Works well here although on a personal note I have never understood why this Ubuntu remix/remaster gets the credit it does. For me Ubuntu originals are in fact better performers in every aspect. ...DOWNLOAD

Slackware 12.2 Desktop Preview
The latest Slackware with no less than 3 configured desktops, KDE 3.5.10, FluxBox 1.1.1 and WindowMaker 0.92. Select desktop at the LOGIN screen. Occupies 5 GB only on disk of a virtual dynamic disk of 20 GB. 588 MB RAM allocated and the download is 1.1 GB. Works well here and if you wish to try different Dekstops here is your chance. Enjoyed this myself actually although Slackware means slightly more work when installing VMwareTools etc....DOWNLOAD

TinyMe 2008.1 Desktop Preview
PCLinuxOS light remix with OpenBox and LXDE Desktop. Occupies 1 GB only on disk of a virtual dynamic disk of 8 GB. 488 MB RAM allocated and the download is 296 MB. Fully upgraded on the 14th of December. Opera 9.62, Claws Mail and GQview installed additionally. Works nicely here and is crisp and swift....DOWNLOAD

OzOS 0.9 Desktop Preview
Xubuntu 8.04.1 remaster with E17 (Enlightenment) DE. Occupies 3.4 GB on a virtual dynamic disk of 20 GB. 544 MB RAM allocated and the download is 594 MB. Fully upgraded on the 12th of December incl. kernel. Works nicely here and is worthwhile looking at simply for the E17 desktop. ...DOWNLOAD

CAOS-NSA-1.0 Desktop Preview
CentOS 5 based Server oriented desktop with kernel 2.6.26.5 and Xfce 4.4.2 DE. Has its own Server/System Comfiguration tool called 'Sidekick'. Includes amongst others: Perceus 1.4, Warewulf-3, OFED, Slurm (Cluster Scheduler), GRSecurity enabled, PAX enabled, PHP (hardened), Postfix, Cyrus IMAPD and MySQL 5. Releasedate 26th of November 2008. Occupies 3.3GB of a 15GB dynamic disk and has 544 MB RAM allocated. Downloadsize is 638 MB . Pleasant, well-behaved and worth a try. ...DOWNLOAD

PC/OS 2009 OW Desktop Preview
Remastered Xubuntu 8.04.1 with Kernel 2.6.24-21-generic. Fully updated/upgraded on the 24th of November. Releasedate 20th of Nov 2008. The disk is 20GB and the appliance occupies 3.98GB installed and the download is 975 MB. 588MB RAM is allocated as default. Features a pretty complete workstation including applications such as Eclipse, Gambas2, Qt4 Designer, Cheese, Fontmatrix, Scribus, Wine, Likewise Domain Join, Skype, Screenlets and many more. Works perfect here. ...DOWNLOAD

open Progex 8.20 Desktop Preview
Remastered Ubuntu 8.10 with Kernel 2.6.27.8 and GNOME 2.24.1. Fully updated/upgraded on the 24th of November. Releasedate 12th of Nov 2008. The disk is 20GB and the appliance occupies 5.2GB installed and the download is 1.46GB. 612MB RAM is allocated as default. Absolutely loaded with applications and all working nicely. I'm impressed by this release and a must try/have for those who really wants to see or work with a complete Linux dekstop....DOWNLOAD

Mandriva 2009 Xfce Desktop Preview
Mandriva 2009 with Xfce 4.4.2 Desktop and Kernel 2.6.27.5-2mnb. Kernel-devel are installed as well as VMwareTools 6.5.0-118166. The resolution is DYNAMIC (drag the frame VMware to desired size). Distro release date 17/11/2008. The appliance occupies 2.7GB of the virtual disk which is 14GB in total. Default RAM is set at 544MB and the download is 624MB in total. This works nicely on my setup.
...DOWNLOAD

WeakNet Linux 1.0 Desktop Preview
Security distro from WeakNetLabs. Based on Ubuntu 8.04.1 with Kernel 2.6.24-21 and GNOME 2.22.3. Fully updated on the 22nd of November. Released on the 20th of November 2008. Substantial amount of security tools including WeakNetLabs own code and a 'dashboard' with main applications. The dynamic disk is 20GB and the appliance occupies 3.6GB installed and the download is 848 MB. 612 MB RAM is allocated as default. Must try/have security/admin users....DOWNLOAD

Caine 0.3 Desktop Preview
CAINE (Computer Aided INvestigative Environment) is a GNU/Linux Digital Forensics distro for Interdepartment Center for Research on Security (CRIS), supported by the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy. Based on Ubuntu 8.04.1 with Kernel 2.6.24-21 and GNOME 2.22.3. Fully updated on the 14th of November. Released on the 7th of October 2008. The dynamic disk is 20GB and the appliance occupies 2.9GB installed and the download is 630 MB. 564 MB RAM is allocated as default. Works nicely and is very stable here....DOWNLOAD

Fedora 10 Desktop Preview
Fedora 10 preview with GNOME 2.24 desktop. Kernel 2.6.27-4.fc10. Complete with devel-tools, kernel-devel and VMwareTools 6.5.0-118166 installed . Fully updated 08/11/2008. 612 MB RAM allocated and occupies 5.3 GB of a 25GB dynamic disk. The download is 1.2 GB. Works nicely here although Fedora will never be my own choice. ...DOWNLOAD

Samurai-0.1 Desktop Preview
Security and web penetration test suite based on Ubuntu 8.04
Kernel 2.6.24-21-generic with Gnome 2.22.3 Desktop. Fully upgraded on 08/10/2008. Headers and some dev-tools are installed as well as VMwareTools 6.5-118166. The resolution is DYNAMIC (drag the VMware frame to desired size). Distro release date 10/08/1008. The appliance occupies 3.0GB of the virtual disk which is 14GB in total. Default RAM is set at 548MB and the download is 675MB in total. Works well here. Loaded with intrusion tools: DirBuster, Fierce Domain Scanner, Gooscan, Grendel-Scan, HTTP_Print fingerprinting tool, Maltego CE, Nikto, Paros, Rat Proxy, Spike Proxy , SQLBrute, w3af (and the GUI), Wapiti, WebScarab, WebShag, ZenMap, dnswalk, httping, httrack, john the ripper, netcat, nmap, siege, snarf etc.
...DOWNLOAD

Helix 2008R1 Desktop Preview
Ubuntu 8.04 based Incident Response. Discovery, Forensics and Security Distro
Kernel 2.6.24-21-generic with Gnome 2.22.3 Desktop. Fully upgraded on the 03/10/2008. The source and some dev-tools are installed as well as VMwareTools 6.5-118166. The resolution is DYNAMIC (drag the VMware frame to desired size). Distro release date 23/09/2008. The appliance occupies 2.8GB of the virtual disk which is 14GB in total. Default RAM is set at 568MB and the download is 708MB in total. Works well here. For those of you who wants to use or try applications like Adepto, Autopsy, GtkHash, Linen, Ophcrack etc.
...DOWNLOAD

Back|Track 3 - Security Distro Desktop Preview
Back|Track 3, with KDE 3.5.7 Desktop and Kernel 2.6.21.5. Loads of specialized applications for admins. The kernel-source is installed as well as VMwareTools e.x.p-110068. The resolution is DYNAMIC (drag the frame VMware to desired size). Released in June 2008. The appliance occupies 5.2GB of the virtual disk which is 12GB in total. Default RAM is set at 588MB and the download is 1.18GB in total. Regarded as one of the top Security distros and the LiveCD has been downloaded more than 1 mill times already. Based on Slackware 10.2 this is a first class release and is stable and excellent on my systems.
...DOWNLOAD

Gentoo 2008.0
Based on the LiveCD released on the 06/07/2008. Compiled/recompiled/installed kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r8, kernel-source, Xfce4 (4.4.2), xorg-x11, thunar-volman, thunar-archive, p7z, gentoolkit, xcompmgr, ristretto, mplayer, mplayerplug-in, VMwareTools e.x.p-84113 and some 59 upgrades and fixes. Disksize 12 GB whereoff 5.7 is allocated presently to the appliance. Set at 624MB RAM and the download-size is 1.36 GB. Gentoo has grown on me and I kinda like it these days although the install/building is quite time-consuming as is expected of a truly source-built distro. I have left a substantial amount of applications to be installed by the users themselves so this is a good VM to use for those who really wants to get their hands 'dirty' building their own Gentoo. It is stable and XFCE makes it fast and responsive. ...DOWNLOAD

centOS 5.2
Red Hat Enterprise based with GNOME desktop. Fully updated on the 25th of June incl. kernel, kernel-devel, cpp, gcc, build-tools and VMwareTools 6.0.3-80004 are installed. Additionally we have installed, Mplayer plus plugins and w32codecs, Adobe Flashplayer, xcompmgr, murrine-engine and some iconsets. Release date 24/06/2008. CentOS is ranked no.12 on Distrowatch. The physical disk is 14GB whereoff 3.8 GB i used for the appliance. The download is 933MB. Very mature and stable although not bleeding edge. Absolutely high class no doubt. ...DOWNLOAD

openSOLARIS 2008.5
Codename 'Indiana' solaris distro with GNOME 2.20.2 desktop. Based on SunOS 5.11 version snv_86. Complete with VMwareTools installed . Extra repositories blastwave and sunfreeware installed as well as Cups printing, Adobe Flash and some media files. 688 MB RAM allocated and needs 4.6 GB of diskspace. The download is 952 MB. The physical disk is 14GB. Quite frankly opensolaris is highly immature as a desktop in my opinion. Terribly diffult to turn into an appliance. Sound, network does not work out-of-the-box but is working finally in this appliance. There is a boot-bug in opensolaris on VMware which results in a boot-time of more than 5 minutes. This has also been fixed by us in this appliance although there is NO official fix for it yet by VMware or Solaris. Release date 05/05/2008. ...DOWNLOAD

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