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.
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Thank you for providing the best virtual appliances on the web. Backtrack3 runs perfectly on vmware workstation 5 on HP6715b laptop.
met vriendelijke groeten,
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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
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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 (except for Windows 7 RC which is subject to donation). 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, Vista Ultimate and W7 Ultimate.
We allocate between 384-968MB RAM for the appliance.
This means 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.
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.

WINDOWS 7RC IMPORTANT!! Due to substantial downloading of Windows 7 RC we will only be offering this appliance to users who have donated a minimum of 10 USD. A separate downloading address is provided by email to donors as soon as their donations has been confirmed. It usually takes 36-48 hrs maximum until the link is dispatched. Please use the donation button on this site. Sorry for this but the Windows 7RC appliance was using more than 10 TB of bandwidth per month alone.

Simple How to and Terms of use

1. Download VMware Player (Free of charge) here and install.
2. Download one of the 7zip compressed appliances below or 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 2-3 series and Workstation 5-7 series. We do NOT test on VMware Server or VMware Fusion and if you are not an advanced user you may have problems getting them to work on those platforms.

Windows 7 Ultimate (see notice above) Desktop Preview
RC version (build 7100) of the next OS from Microsoft^®. Standard with latest patches, Opera 10 alpha browser and VMwareTools installed. The physical disk is 30GB whereoff 5.9 GB is used for the appliance. The download is 1.9 GB and RAM set at 888 MB. The RC is valid til March 2010 according to Microsoft. Please study the README.doc inside the package for further information. Works very well here.

If you want the RC to run longer than March 2010 try the settings described ...HERE

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

FreeBSD 8 Desktop Preview
This FreeBSD has been fully upgraded and recompiled between the 12th and 15th of January 2010 including and upgrade of Gnome to 2.28. A substantial amount of additional tools and applications has been compiled/built incl. compat6x, pulseaudio, sudo, linux-base-f10 (for linux compatibilty), firefox 3.5 and the linuxf10-flashplugin. All in all more than 70 hrs has been spent recompiling and building this appliance. The disk is 40Gb whereoff 7.6 GB is used. 688MB RAM is allocated and the download is a a massive 2.3 GB (sorry folks but couldn't shrink more.) Works very well here....DOWNLOAD

Dread Moon Linux Desktop Preview
Dread Moon is an Ubuntu (9.04) based fully featured Game and Multimedia development environement incl. full D-language support and Arch2D game libraries. It was released in December 2009. The physical disk is 40GB whereoff 7 GB is used. The download is 1.6 GB and 688MB RAM is allocated. Fully upgraded incl. kernel to 2.6.28-17. Some extras has been installed like the Chromium browser, the Adobe flashplugin and some 9.10 themes and icons. Works well here after a substantial amount of 'fixing'....DOWNLOAD

Fedora 12 Electronic Lab Desktop Preview
FEL is the Fedora ElectronicLab spin featuring an advanced electronic design and simulation platform for micro-nano engineering. Designed for enthusiasts and professionals in particular. The physical disk is 40GB whereoff 7 GB is used. The download is 1.4 GB and 888MB RAM is allocated. Fully upgraded incl. kernel on the 25th of December 2009. Works very well here although my knowledge of the electronic software installed is limited....DOWNLOAD

Matriux 0.9.4 Desktop Preview
The Matriux is a Kubuntu based fully featured security distribution consisting of hundreds of powerful free tools including, penetration testing, ethical hacking, system and network administration, cyber forensics investigations, security testing, vulnerability analysis, and much more. Designed for security enthusiasts and professionals in particular. Release date 27/11/2009. The physical disk is 40GB whereoff 5.5 GB is used. The download is 707 MB and 688MB RAM allocated. Fully upgraded incl. kernel to 2.6.31-16, KDE to 4.3.2, Firefox to 3.5 and Alsa to 1.0.21. Some extras has been installed as well. Works well here after a substantial amount of 'fixing'....DOWNLOAD

Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 Desktop Preview
Ubuntu 9.10 respun for netbooks with the Netbook launcher interface. Release date Oct. 2009. The physical disk is 40GB whereoff 3.5 GB is used. The download is 795 MB and RAM set at 588 MB. Uses Kernel 2.6.31. Adobe Air and GM-Desk has been installed as extras. Works very well here although I find the Netbook Launcher a bit slow....DOWNLOAD

Ubuntu 10.04 alpha1 Desktop Preview
First release of "Lucid Lynx". VMwareTools 8.1.3-203739 has been installed. Have installed a few minor extras like the new 'Sun' theme. Release date 16/12/2009. The physical disk is 40GB whereoff 3.8 GB is used. The download is 727 MB and RAM set at 588 MB. Uses Kernel 2.6.32, default filesystem ext4 and Grub2. Works very well here for beeing the first alpha and certainly worth a download. Boot-speed is really impressive...DOWNLOAD

Linux Mint 8 Desktop Preview
The latest Linux Mint (Gnome edition). Complete with VMwareTools 8.1.3. 588 MB RAM allocated and occupies 3.6 GB of a 40GB dynamic disk. The download is 591 MB. Works nicely and is well worth a download. Linux Mint is now ranked 4 on Distrowatch....DOWNLOAD

Fedora 12 Desktop Preview
Fedora 12 with GNOME 2.28.1. Kernel 2.6.31.5. Complete with dev-tools, kernel-devel and VMwareTools 8.1.3-203729 installed. Fully updated 18/10/2009. 588 MB RAM allocated and occupies 3.7 GB of a 40GB dynamic disk. The download is 799 MB. Works well here....DOWNLOAD

openSUSE 11.2 Xfce Desktop Preview
With Xfce 4.6.1 desktop. Installed kernel-source, build-tools and MS Fonts. openSUSE is ranked 4th on Distrowatch. The physical disk is 40GB whereoff 3 GB i used for the appliance. The download is 649 GB. Wanted to build a faster not so bloated openSUSE and I'm quite satisfied with the result. Absolutely worthwhile a try....DOWNLOAD

CentOS 5.4 - bagSoundLab Desktop Preview
This is a special build of CentOS based on the latest 5.4 version combined with the entire planet CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics) kernel and applications installed. It features a real-time kernel for low-latency and no less than 94 sound applications and 160 sound libraries. The following repos are activated in addition to CentOS own; CCRMA and RPM-forge. The result is similar to Ubuntu Studio and 64Studio but on my machine this one works substantially better. Jackd is configured (based on my machine and not in duplex mode) but NOT starting automatically so for applications requiering jackd (for example Rosegarden) start it manually. Soundfontpacks for Qsynth (Fluid3GM) has been installed. This appliance is for powerful machines ONLY so 1GB RAM is allocated. It occupies 5.7 GB of a 40 Gb virtual disk and the download is 966 MB. ...DOWNLOAD

Mandriva 2010.0 Desktop Preview
Final release with Gnome 2.28.1. VMwareTools 8.1.3-203739 has been installed. Fully updated. The physical disk is 40GB whereoff 3.7 GB is used. The download is 954 MB and RAM set at 600 MB. Uses Kernel 2.6.31.5-1mnb2. Works very well here and Mandriva is growing on me as a first class distro....DOWNLOAD

Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop Preview
Final release of Karmic Koala. VMwareTools 8.1.3-203739 has been installed. Have installed as EXTRA the Chromium Browser, Tucan, MiniTube and UbuntuTweak. Release date 04/11/2009. The physical disk is 40GB whereoff 2.8 GB is used. The download is 633 MB and RAM set at 588 MB. Uses Kernel 2.6.31, default filesystem ext4 and Grub2. Works very well here....DOWNLOAD

centOS 5.4 Desktop Preview
Red Hat Enterprise based with GNOME 2.16 desktop. Installed kernel-devel, cpp, gcc, build-tools and VMwareTools 7.8.6-185404, Adobe flash plugin, admin-tools and gtk-murrine-engine. Release date 21/10/2009 and fully upgraded on the 26th of October. CentOS is ranked no.12 on Distrowatch. The physical disk is 40GB whereoff 3.6 GB is used for the appliance. The download is 597MB. Very mature and stable although not bleeding edge. Absolutely top class no doubt. ...DOWNLOAD

Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 Update 4 Desktop Preview
Based on Red Hat 5 and with the Gnome desktop. Complete with source, devel-tools, VMwareTools 7.8.6-185404 installed. Full Clustering and Cluster-storage modules installed but NOT configured. Server and Unbreakable Linux Network services are enabled but again NOT configured for obvious reasons. The License agreement and TOS is here: Oracle License . 688 MB RAM is allocated and occupies 3.9 GB of a 40GB dynamic disk. The download is 677 MB. Stable as a rock but not bleeding edge of course. ...DOWNLOAD

Sabayon 5.0 Gnome Desktop Preview
The Gnome edition of the latest Sabayon (Gentoo based). Complete with source, devel-tools, VMwareTools 7.8.6-185404 and Pcmanfm installed. Fully updated 02/10/2009. 688 MB RAM allocated and occupies 6.1 GB of a 40GB dynamic disk. The download is 1.3 GB. Works quite well here. ...DOWNLOAD

Ultimate Edition 2.3 - Gamers Desktop Preview
Based on Ubuntu 9.04 with Gnome 2.26.1 Desktop. Complete with VMwareTools 7.8.6-185404. Fully updated 24/09/2009. Perhaps one of the most comprehensive Ubuntu remixes around and this one includes a massive amount of games. Fully loaded with applications for media, graphics, Wine (for running Windows applications) etc. 700 MB RAM allocated and occupies 9.2GB of a 40GB dynamic disk. The download is 3.5 GB (Sorry the games are heavy). Works nicely here. NOTE! 3D games do not work in 3D as the Vmware SVGD driver does not emulate this. Not my fault so don't make a point of it. ...DOWNLOAD

Zenwalk 6.2 Desktop Preview
Final release of Zenwalk. Vmmouse fixed to work properly with Xorg by installing xf86-input-vmmouse and fixing the xorg-conf. Release date 06/09/2009. The physical disk is 40GB whereoff 3.9 GB is used. The download is 624 MB and RAM set at 544MB. Uses Kernel 2.6.30 and Xfce 4.6.1 desktop. Works very well so if you like or want to try this Slackware based, lightweight and snappy distro go ahead and download....DOWNLOAD

Slackware 13 Desktop Preview
The latest Slackware with no less than 4 configured desktops, KDE 4, Xfce 4.6.1 FluxBox 1.1.1 and WindowMaker 0.92. Select desktop at the LOGIN screen (Session). Occupies 5.9 GB on disk of a virtual dynamic disk of 40 GB. 688 MB RAM allocated and the download is 1.4 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. Have installed extras like; Opera10, Adobe Flash, Slapt-get, gSlapt, Qt3, QtCurve-KDE4 and some gtk-engines....DOWNLOAD

CrunchBang Linux 9.04.1 Desktop Preview
The latest CrunchBang based on Ubuntu 9.04.1 with Openbox, tint2 and Conky. Some extras installed like an upgrade of grub to grub2 plus dev tools for VMware Tools 785. Alsa has been reinstalled/recompiled as sound did not work properly. The disk is 40 GB, the appliance takes up 3.1 GB, 600 MB RAM is allocated and the download is 578 MB MB. Works perfect here. CrunchBang is truly a distro worth a serious try. ...DOWNLOAD

PCLinuxOS 2009.2 Desktop Preview
This is This is the new GNOME edition of PCLOS. Fully featured with VMware-Tools installed. The disk is 40 GB, the appliance takes up 3.9 GB, 600 MB RAM is allocated and the download is 1.4 GB. PCLOS is perhaps not the most bleeding edge of the distros but sure is rock solid and works perfect as always. ...DOWNLOAD

Ubuntu 9.10 BSE Desktop Preview
This is Ubuntu 9.10 alpha2 bagside edition (BSE) which is fully updated incl. the latest kernel. It features a substantial amount of themes for you to try and in addition you will find, Midori browser, Conky and Screenlets to make the desktop stand out. Claws Mail has replaced Evolution and OpenOffice has been removed in favour of Abiword and Gnumeric. The disk is 40 GB, the appliance takes up 3.9 GB, 612 MB RAM is allocated and the download is 828 MB. Works perfect here. ...DOWNLOAD

ArtistX Desktop Preview
ArtistX is aimed at the GNU/Linux audio, video and graphic enthusiast as well as professional. Based on Ubuntu 8.10 it features more than 2500 applications. Complete with VMwareTools 7.8.5-156735 and parts of OpenSource VM-tools. Fully updated 04/06/2009. 888 MB RAM allocated and occupies 10 GB of a 40GB dynamic disk. The download is 2.6 GB. Works very well here....DOWNLOAD

Ubuntu Studio 9.04 Desktop Preview
Ubuntu Studio is aimed at the GNU/Linux audio, video and graphic enthusiast as well as professional. Complete with VMwareTools 7.8.5-156735 and ubuntu-restricted-extras. Fully updated 03/05/2009. 688 MB RAM allocated and occupies 4.6 GB of a 40GB dynamic disk. The download is 2.1 GB. Works very well here....DOWNLOAD

Caine 0.5 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 2.6.24-24 and GNOME 2.22.3. Fully updated on the 2nd of March 2009. Released on the 22nd of Feb. 2009. The dynamic disk is 40GB and the appliance occupies 3.5GB installed and the download is 683 MB. 588 MB RAM is allocated as default. Works well....DOWNLOAD

Bio-Linux 5.0 Desktop Preview
Bio-Linux 5.0 is a fully featured, powerful, configurable and easy to maintain bioinformatics workstation featuring over 500 bio related applications. It is built on Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS and sports the Gnome 2.22.3 DE. The disk is 40 Gb (Dynamic) of which the appliance is currently occupying 6 GB and the download is 1.6 GB. Released on the 12th of January 2009. Works nicely and should be ideal for professionals in the filed of bioinformatics. Personally I don't have a clue what these applications are all about so don't ask me :-) ...DOWNLOAD

Arch Linux 2009.02 (KDE 4.2 DE) Desktop Preview
Built from the base-install CD using the ext4 filesystem. Installed Opera 10 qt4 version, Yaourt and VMwareTools. Updated/upgraded fully. Note that Akonadi and nepomuk are disabled as they are still buggy. The disk is 25 Gb (Dynamic) of which the appliance is currently occupying 4 GB and the download is 1.6 GB. Released on the 17th of February 2009. Note that the only user is 'root' with pwd: bagside. I must admit Arch is and has always been one of my favs. It's quick, highly responsive and KDE 4.2 functions beyond my expectations on this Arch version. First KDE 4.2 that really feels like a stable DE. ...DOWNLOAD

Back|Track 4 - Security Distro Desktop Preview
Back|Track 4 beta, with KDE 3.5.10 Desktop and Kernel 2.6.28.1. Now based on Ubuntu Intrepid. Loads of specialized applications for admins. VMwareTools 7.8.4-126130 installed along with SLIM Login manager, some extra scripts and the gtk-qt-engine. Released 11th Feb. 2009. The appliance occupies 4.2GB of the virtual disk which is 25GB in total. Default RAM is set at 688MB and the download is 839 MB. Regarded as one of the top Security distros. 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

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