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 virtual machine. This can be done by anyone who has basic knowledge plus documentation for each virtual machine and above all time and patience.
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of them work perfectly without any changes. - Ollie Deex USA
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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
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Virtual Appliances
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. This means that you can go to the home-site for each distro to find information and the package list.
bagvapp wiki.
- bagvapps are built for use on MS Windows OS's in general.
- They should also work on Linux distros (Linux host/Linux guest).
- We test on XPSP2-3 and Vista Ultimate
- We allocate between 384-784MB RAM for the appliance.
- This means that you need TWICE as much of physical RAM on your machine
- Each appliance normally needs a minimum of 2GB of space on your HD
- All our appliances have WMware Tools installed
- Ethernet connection is set to NAT unless specified otherwise.
- USB and CD-ROM are enabled and working.
- Floppy and serial/parallell ports are disabled by default.(Can be reactivated).
- Screen resolution is mostly dynamic and set at 1152x900 as default. Can be changed easily.
- Some settings can be edited in a normal text editor by opening the *.vmx file.
- We have NO affiliation whatsoever with VMware apart from being regular users of their products.
IMPORTANT!! Appliance spec., passwords etc. are included in the compressed download as a README.txt. Direct linking to the appliances on our fileservers is NOT permitted and websites with such links will be subject to blacklisting. All links should point to "http://bagside.com " or "http://bagside.com/bagvapp "
FEED-BACK!! It would be highly appreciated and of great help for the future if you would be so kind as to sending 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. 4000 GB/mnth or abt. 5000 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.
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 'Wolvix' 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.
General
All appliances have been compiled with VMwareTools installed allowing for movement of the mouse freely between host/guest, free setting of screen-resolution (xorg.conf modified with VMware), 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 XPSP2 MCE 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.
Mandriva 2009.0 b2 Desktop Preview
Mandriva 2009.0 beta2 with GNOME 2.24 Desktop and Kernel 2.6.26-2mnb. Kernel-devel are installed as well as VMwareTools e.x.p-99530. The resolution is DYNAMIC (drag the frame VMware to desired size). Distro release date 21st of August 2008. The appliance occupies 3.4GB of the virtual disk which is 12GB in total. Default RAM is set at 548MB and the download is 1006MB in total. This beta is a delight on my setup. Impressive release by Mandriva.
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Xubuntu-Xtreme Desktop Preview
Xubuntu 8.04.1 LTS remix with Kernel 2.6.24-19-generic and Xfce 4.4.2 Desktop and Google Gadgets installed. Fully upgraded. Headers and some dev-tools are installed as well as VMwareTools. The resolution is DYNAMIC (drag the frame VMware to desired size). Distro release date 13th of July 2008. The appliance occupies 3.4GB of the virtual disk which is 9GB in total. Default RAM is set at 500MB and the download is 946MB in total. Works nicely here and is stable.
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Bubuntu 8.04 French Edition - Language and Keyboard
Ubuntu 8.04 remix with Kernel 2.6.24-19-generic and GNOME 2.22.3 Desktop. Fully upgraded on the 17th of August (more than 200 itmes). Headers and some dev-tools are installed as well as VMwareTools. The resolution is DYNAMIC (drag the frame VMware to desired size). Distro release date 4th of July 2008. The appliance occupies 3.1GB of the virtual disk which is 14GB in total. Default RAM is set at 500MB and the download is 736MB in total. Works nicely here and is stable.
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Elastix 1.1-8 Custom made Telephony
Centos 5 based IP-telephony distro with Asterisk, FreePBX, Zapata, a2billing, openFIRE, SugarCRM, HylaFax, MySQL etc. installed. You will need an FXO card and FXS adaptor to use the telephony software. NONE of the telephony softwares are configured. PLEASE NOTE:Dynamic resolution is enabled.
This appliance has been build with a full X Windows System and Xfce 4.4.2 Desktop and VMwareTools has been installed as well as Firefox 3.0.1 and a full multimedia set. Also note that the boot up stops at a command prompt for those who wants to configure a telephony server without the desktop GUI. Others can log in with ID: root and Password: bagside. Once you get to root you just start the desktop with: startxfce4. The appliance occupies 3.1GB of the virtual disk which is 14GB in total. Default RAM is set at 500MB and the download is 773MB in total. The donwload includes *.pdf Elastix Documentation.
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WorkBench Linux Desktop Preview
This is an Xubuntu 8.04.1 remix feturing Xfce/Screenlets and Cairodock desktop specialised for Web-development with Apache. XAMPP, Gambas, NetBeans, Lazarus, Eclipse, Bluefish, CCSed, gPHP and many more. PLEASE NOTE:Dynamic resolution enabled. Fully upgraded on the 12th of August. Some dev-tools has been installed in order to facilitate installing/compiling VMwareTools e.x.p-99530. The dynamic virtual disk is 15 GB whereoff 5.8 is presently used by the install. 568MB RAM is allocated. Official releasedate for the version was 23rd July 2008. On my systems the appliance is stable and works nicely. Pleasant surprise all-in-all. The download size is 1.44 GB.
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gOS 3b
Codenamed 'Gadgets', this is an Ubuntu 8.04.1 based distro with Gnome/Google-Gadgets desktop . PLEASE NOTE: This appliance has been compiled with the dynamic resolution-resize feature in VMwareTools enabled which means that you can resize the virtual guest simply by grabbing the lower left corner of the vm frame and drag the window bigger/smaller and the guest will follow nicely. Fully upgraded on the 9th of August. Some dev-tools has been installed in order to facilitate installing/compiling VMwareTools e.x.p-99530. The dynamic virtual disk is 15 GB whereoff 3.3 is presently used by the install. 588MB RAM is allocated. Official releasedate for the version was 7th August 2008 and gOS is presently ranked 27th on Distrowatch. On my systems the appliance is very stable and works nicely. The download size is 775 MB.
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Foresight 2.0.4
rPath/Conary based Linux with Gnome 2.22.3 desktop. PLEASE NOTE: This appliance has been compiled with the dynamic resolution-resize feature in VMwareTools enabled which means that you can resize the virtual guest simply by grabbing the lower left corner of the virtual machine frame and drag the window bigger/smaller and the guest resolution will follow nicely. Group-devel-tools incl. headers etc. has been installed in order to facilitate installing/compiling VMwareTools e.x.p-99530. Furthermore some multimedia applications has been installed as well as Gconf-Editor. The dynamic virtual disk is 12 GB whereoff 5.2 is presently used by the install. 544MB RAM is allocated. Official releasedate for the version was 24th July 2008 and Foresight is presently ranked 26th on Distrowatch. On my systems the appliance is very stable and works nicely. For those who like rPath/Conary or want to try it then this is for you.
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Ubuntu 8.10 alpha 3 "Intrepid Ibex"
Early Ubuntu 8.10 with GNOME 2.23.3 Desktop and kernel 2.6.26-4-generic. This one has been modified by disabling and blacklisting the snd_pcsp module as otherwise the Ubuntu alphas so far don't even start from the login-screen in VMware. Otherwise this appliance is pretty close to the original however the linux-headers has been reinstalled as VMwareTools refused to build/compile on the original setup. VMwareTools e.x.p-99530 has been installed (they are from workstation 6.5 beta), other versions had issues during install. There is a bug /amongst others) in Ubuntu 8.10 alpha which causes a Logout to GDM when you try to Shutdown or Reboot from the Gnome Desktop. Once at the Login screen you can Shutdown or logout there. ... Read more about this here.... The virtual disksize is 14GB whereoff 2.8GB is used presently for the appliance. 588MB RAM is allocated for the VM and the download is 672 MB. The appliance works nicely and is quite stable on my rigs.
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Gentoo 2008.0
Based on the LiveCD released on the 6th of July 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 on 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 thir own Gentoo. It is stable and XFCE makes it fast and responsive. ...DOWNLOAD
Pardus 2008
Pardus 'Kurulan (with KDE 3.5.9) is an independent distro of high quality featuring an innovative boot system amongst others which makes booting very fast. I have installed the kernel-source, dev-tools and VMwareTools e.x.p-84113. Xorg.conf has been fixed to play nicely with Vmware as well as Pardus and the local.start file has been fixed to autostart vmware-tools. A full update was performed on the 5th of July. Releasedate 27th of June and Pardus is presently ranked 47 on Distrowatch. The virtual dynamic disk is 12 GB and the install occupies 3.9 GB right now. RAM is set at 588 MB and the download is 767 MB. Stable and good distro generally....DOWNLOAD
Sidux 2008-2 "Erberos"
Debian SID based with Xfce 4.4.2 Desktop. Fully updated 4th of July 2008. Kernel 2.6.25.9 and VMwareTools e.x.p-84113 installed. Release date 26th of June 2008. Sidux is ranked no.22 on Distrowatch. The physical disk is 12GB whereoff 1.9 GB i used for the appliance. The download is 447MB. Sidux is always pleasant. With Xfce it is quick and snappy.. ...DOWNLOAD
Arch Linux 2008.06
Independent binary/source distro featuring Pacman package system. I have built this from ground up using the 'base-install'. Built with Gnome 2.22.2 desktop and kernel 2.6.25-ARCH. Includes headers, dev-tools, Firefox 3.0-2, Yaourt, cups, gutenprint, mplayer + plugin. media codecs, inkscape, gthumb, cups, gutenprint, some other stuff and of course VMwareTools e.x.p-84113. Release date 30th of June 2008. Arch is ranked no.19 on Distrowatch. The physical disk is 12GB whereoff 3.6 GB i used for the appliance. The download is 1.3GB. Arch Linux is one of my personal favs and is amongst my top 3 distros ever built. A must download and try. ...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 24th of June 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
openSUSE 11
Please note this the Final version of the openSUSE 11 (based on the DVD install) with GNOME 2.22.1. Kernel-source, kernel-syms, build-tools and VMwareTools e.x.p-84113 are installed. Release date 19th of June 2008. openSUSE is ranked no.2 on Distrowatch. The physical disk is 20GB whereoff 5 GB i used for the appliance. The download is 1 GB and RAM set at 688 MB. Nice, stable and pleasant. ...DOWNLOAD
TinyMe 2008.0
TinyMe is a lightweight PCLOS clone featuring OpenBox 3.4.5, LXpanel, iDesk, Nitrogen and the kernel is 2.6.18.6.tex6.lgc. Mplayer-plugin, w32codecs, Adobe Flashplayer, some extra multimedia libs, gutenprint for cups installed as well as VMwareTools 6.0.3-80004. Releasedate 24th of May and TinyME is ranked 34 on Distrowatch. The disk is 8GB and the appliance occupies 1.4GB installed and the download is only 282 MB. 488MB RAM is allocated as default. TinyMe is definitely worthwhile a spin. It has a pleasant look and feel and works like a charm on my machines. Opera is used as browser and the rest of the applications have been selected for their lightness on resources. This makes everything fast and highly responsive. ...DOWNLOAD
Zenwalk 5.2 b
Slackware based distro with Xfce 4.4.2 desktop. Kernel 2.6.25.4. VMwareTools e.x.p-84113 installed and fixed xorg.conf to work with vmware drivers and modules. User-agent-switcher installed in Iceweasel to work om sites like cnn.com. Physical disk 10 GB of which 2.6 GB occupied by the appliance. Allocated RAM 588 MB. Releasedate was 22nd of May and Zenwalk holds a 37th place ranking on Distrowatch presently. Zenwalk as always is fast and stable. Good choice generally. ...DOWNLOAD
LinuxMint 5 b1
Codename 'Elyssa' is a Ubuntu (8.04)/Debian based distro with GNOME 2.22 desktop.Features Firefox 3. b5 and the following additionals are installed: Xcompmgr, Gqview, Gpm, some smaller dev-tools and the latest VMwreTools e.x.p 84113 of course. The download is 800 MB. The physical disk is 12GB and the installation is using 3GB. LinuxMint is a mature and pleasant desktop and for a beta1 this one is remarkably stable and easy to use. Releasedate was 12th of May and LinuxMint is ranked in 4th place at Distrowatch. ...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. Releasedate was 5th of May. ...DOWNLOAD
Fedora 9
Fedora 9 with GNOME desktop. Kernel 2.6.25-1.fc9. Complete with devel-tools, kernel-devel and VMwareTools e.x.p-84113 installed . Fully updated on the 26th of April 2008. 588 MB RAM allocated and needs 3.7 GB of diskspace. The download is 950 MB. The physical disk is 12GB. ...DOWNLOAD
The README.txt file was regrettable omitted from the package so please ...README HERE for USER and PASSWORD.
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Alphabetical
- 64 Studio 2.0 Electric
- AntiX Spartacus
- ArchLinux 2008.06
- CentOS 5.2
- CrunchBang Linux
- Debian Lenny
- DreamLinux 3.0 RC3
- eAR OS 1.08c
- easys 4.1
- Elastix 1.1-8
- elive 0.6.7
- Fedora 7-Revisor
- Fedora 8
- Fedora 9 RC
- Foresight 2.0.4
- FreezyLinux 1.0
- Frugalware 0.7
- Gentoo 2008.0
- Geubuntu 7.04
- gOS 3 "Gadgets"
- Granular 0.90
- grml.org Linux 1.0
- Kanotix 2007 RC6
- Karoshi 5.1.3
- KateOS 3.6 'Virgin'
- Knoppix 5.3.1 (Mirror)
- Knoppix 5.3.1
- LinuxMint 5 b1
- Mandriva 2009.0 b2
- Mepis7 beta1
- MyahOS 3.0
- openSOLARIS 2008.5
- openSUSE 11.0 a1
- openSUSE 11 Gnome
- Pardus 2008
- Parsix 1.5r0
- PC/OS 7.10.1
- PCLinuxOS Gnome 2.22
- pclosBE RC1 - Server
- pclos-Trans
- Protech One
- Sabayon 3.4
- SAM 2007.1
- Shift Linux 0.6.2
- Sidux 2008-2
- Slackware 12 - Full
- SliTaz - Cooking
- TinyMe 2008.0
- Ubuntu 8.04 b
- Ubuntu 8.04 b (Mirror1)
- Ubuntu 8.10 a3
- Ultimate Edition 1.8
- Vector Linux 5.9
- WBEL4 RS2-Server
- WolvixCub 1.1.0 RC2
- WorkBench Linux
- Xubuntu 8.04
- Xubuntu-Xtreme 8.04.1
- Yoper 3.0.1 Titanium
- Zenserver 0.5
- Zenwalk 5.2b
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