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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of them work perfectly without any changes. - Ollie Deex USA
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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 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 varies but is mostly set at 1200x900. 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. All the appliances are subject to licenses as specified by the respective distro PLUS CCLA 3.0 for the virtual appliance creation by bagside.com. If you want to host or mirror our appliances you should contact us first to get clearance. 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 "
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 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.
easys 4.1
easys 4.1 is an excellent Slackware 12.1 (the latest) distro with KDE 3.5.9 desktop. Kernel 2.6.24.5_smp-i686-2. Complete with devel-tools, kernel-source and VMwareTools e.x.p-84113 installed . Fully updated on the 7th of May 2008. 588 MB RAM allocated and needs 3.8 GB of diskspace. The download is 802 MB. The physical disk is 10GB. This is one of the best distros I have worked with and I recommend it over Slackware 12.1 itself. Releasedate was 1st 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.
Xubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu with XFCE 4.4.2 Desktop. Kernel 2.6.24-16. Complete with devel-tools, headers and VMwareTools e.x.p-84113 installed . Updated on the 21st of April 2008. 548 MB RAM allocated and needs 2.4 GB of diskspace. The download is 589 MB. The physical disk is 9GB....DOWNLOAD
PC/OS 7.10.1
This is an Xubuntu Gutsy 7.10 based release. Kernel 2.6.22-14 and XFCE 4.4 Desktop. Installed correct linux-headers and dev-tools to install/compile VMWare-Tools 6.03-80004. Full set of multimedia packages also installed plus 15 upgrades on the 8th of April. This appliance needs 568 MB RAM, 3.2 GB on disk (9 GB total) and the download is 821 MB. Official release date was 21st of March 2008....DOWNLOAD
Hellix 1.0 Illunum
This is FULLY Spanish localized distro (Spanish Keyboard) based on Ubuntu Feisty 7.04. Este es COMPLETO español localizado distro (teclado español), basada en Ubuntu Feisty 7.04. Features Kernel 2.6.20-16 with GNOME 2.18.1 desktop. VmwareTools 6.0.3-8004 installed. This appliance needs 588MB RAM, 3.6 GB on disk (12 GB total) and the download is 838 MB. Official release date was 7th of April 2008....DOWNLOAD
Knoppix 5.3.1
Please note this is a FULL version of the Knoppix DVD. 3857 applications are installed. Features Kernel 2.6.24.4 and KDE 3.5.9 desktop. VmwareTools 6.0.3-8004 installed. This appliance needs 600MB RAM, 13 GB on disk (20 GB total) and the download is 3.35 GB. Official release date was 28th of March 2008....DOWNLOAD ...DOWNLOAD 2
PUD 0.4.5.8 - Chinese version
This version is based on Ubuntu 8.04 and is a Chinese (Simplified) version. ALL menus and text is in Chinese. Contains kernel 2.6.24-12 and XFCE 4.4.2 desktop. VmwareTools 6.0.3-8004 has been compiled into the kernel. This appliance needs 500MB RAM, 2.0 GB on disk (9 GB total) and the download is 475MB. Official release date was 21st of March 2008....DOWNLOAD
DreamLinux 3.0 RC3
Contains kernel 2.6.23.12-dream and XFCE 4.4.2 desktop. VmwareTools 6.0.3-8004 has ben compiled into the kernel. This appliance needs 576MB RAM, 2.6 GB on disk (8 GB total) and the download is 551MB. Official release date was 14th of March 2008. Here it is a stable, properly working and pleasant distro. Avant Navigator (AWN) is fully installed but not activated for startup as there is a 'focus stealing' bug in Xfce 4.4.2 for which there was no easy fix (other than patching) at the time the appliance was built....DOWNLOAD
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron
Contains kernel 2.6.24-12 and GNOME 2.22 desktop. VmwareTools 6.0.3-8004 has ben compiled into the kernel. Mplayer + plugins, BUM, Startup Manager, Java 1.6, Flash and MSFonts has been added. This appliance needs 576MB RAM, 3.1 GB on disk (9 GB total) and the download is 758MB. Official release date was 21st of March. 2008. This is the first in the new Ubuntu 8.04 (LTS) series that works and is stable enough to release as an appliance. It is actually quite good and well worth instlling. Remember it is a beta so don't hang me for Ubuntu bugs....DOWNLOAD1 ... DOWNLOAD2 (Mirror1) ...DOWNLOAD3 (Mirror2)
Sidux 2008.1 P2
This appliance has not been altered substantially from the original. Some development tools has been installed along with kernel-headers for compiling VMwareTools. Some extra applications have been installed like KysV, BUM, Leafpad, xorg-dev, qt3-dev and kde-dev. Kernel is 2.6.24.3 with KDE 3.5.9 as WM. This is the first appliance built by us with the new 6.0.3-80004 VMwareTools. The appliance is built on a 9GB physical disk whereoff 2.6GB is occupied by Sidux. 600MB RAM is allocated and the download is 724MB. ...DOWNLOAD
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- WolvixCub 1.1.0 RC2
- LinuxMint 4.0 Daryna
- elive 0.6.7
- Yoper 3.0.1 Titanium
- Zenwalk 5.0
- Zenserver 0.5
- 64 Studio 2.0 Electric
- Gentoo 2007.0
- Vector Linux 5.9
- grml.org Linux 1.0
- Karoshi 5.1.3
- Fedora 7-Revisor
- WBEL4 RS2-Server
- DreamLinux 3.0 RC3
- pclosBE RC1 - Server
- Xubuntu 8.04
- Slackware 12 - Full
- AntiX Spartacus
- Frugalware 0.7
- Debian Lenny
- Fedora 8
- openSUSE 11.0 a1
- ArchLinux 2007.08
- Mepis7 beta1
- Sidux 2008-1 Nyx
- Pardus 2007.2
- SAM 2007.1
- Kanotix 2007 RC6
- KateOS 3.6 'Virgin'
- Sabayon 3.4
- Protech One
- Geubuntu 7.04
- Granular 0.90
- Ubuntu 8.04 b
- Ubuntu 8.04 b (Mirror1)
- Ubuntu 8.04 b (Mirror2)
- gOS 2.0 b1
- CentOS 5.1
- PCLinuxOS Gnome 2.22
- Shift Linux 0.6.2
- CrunchBang Linux
- pclos-Trans
- Ultimate Edition 1.7
- Mandriva 2008.1 RC1
- Knoppix 5.3.1
- Knoppix 5.3.1 (Mirror)
- PC/OS 7.10.1
- Fedora 9 RC
- easys 4.1
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